This document outlines the sections and structure for a thesis proposal, including: a review of the current state of research on the topic and areas needing further exploration; a single sentence thesis statement; description of the corpus of texts or time period to be studied and its relevance; the critical theories that will be used to analyze the corpus; an outline of the dissertation chapters; some tentative conclusions; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The proposal calls for limiting the scope of the analysis to a specific time period, geography, gender, ethnicity, or class to ensure a pertinent examination of the central problematic.
This document outlines the sections and structure for a thesis proposal, including: a review of the current state of research on the topic and areas needing further exploration; a single sentence thesis statement; description of the corpus of texts or time period to be studied and its relevance; the critical theories that will be used to analyze the corpus; an outline of the dissertation chapters; some tentative conclusions; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The proposal calls for limiting the scope of the analysis to a specific time period, geography, gender, ethnicity, or class to ensure a pertinent examination of the central problematic.
This document outlines the sections and structure for a thesis proposal, including: a review of the current state of research on the topic and areas needing further exploration; a single sentence thesis statement; description of the corpus of texts or time period to be studied and its relevance; the critical theories that will be used to analyze the corpus; an outline of the dissertation chapters; some tentative conclusions; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The proposal calls for limiting the scope of the analysis to a specific time period, geography, gender, ethnicity, or class to ensure a pertinent examination of the central problematic.
1 State of the Art (that is the conclusions arrived at in this particular
topic and the unexplored or little explored area you wish to study) (1,5 page) 2 Thesis Statement (the central problematic, should be able to formulate it in one sentence) (half a page) 3 Corpus studied and rationale (text or period selected for analysis and their relevance to the topic under examination, should limit yourself in time and in geography also in gender, ethnicity. Class for your analysis to be pertinent....) (1 page) 4 Theoretical tools (Critical theories, schools or orientations chosen as a prism to further explore and unlock your corpus) (1page ) 5 Outline (Detail the various parts chapters etc that your dissertation will comprise, this is always tentative and subject to change) (1 page) 6 Tentative conclusions (profile some conclusions) (half a page) 7 Tentative Bibliography A_ Primary sources i.e. Books or texts selected for study and analysis B _Secondary sources comprising