Points to present

Components of a Research Proposal

• Title of the proposal
• Background
• Research questions
• Research objectives/purposes, significances, hypotheses
• Terminology/Definition of terms
• Review of related literature/frame of theory
• Frame of concept
• Research methods and procedures
• Expected results (Material development)
• Preliminary working bibliography
• Appendices
 Title of the proposal
• Complete title
• Place for conducting proposed research
 Background
• Research topic
• Rationales for the need of conducting research
• Problems existed in the research context
• The need to explore the topic
• Concerns about the effectiveness
• Research gap
 Research questions
• Main research question
• If any sub-research questions
 Research objectives/purposes,
significances, hypotheses
• Write clearly
• Depending of your research design, write only relevant information
 Terminology/Definition of terms
• Important terms used over and over throughout your research
proposal and future thesis
• Define the terms, not just citing form experts’ definition
 Frame of Concept
• Briefly explain what and you are going to conduct your research
• If you have any chart, show and explain it here
 Review of related literature/frame of
theory
• Only important points
• Maybe just headings
 Research methods and procedures
• Type of your research design
• Population and sample (depending on your research type)
• Techniques of data collection
• Research tools
• Data analysis plan
 Preliminary working bibliography
• Only cited authors are written here
• Make sure you follow APA referencing system
 Appendices
• Lesson plan
• Lesson plan handout, materials, assessment
• Pre/post test
• Research tools
• Questionnaire
• Interview questions
• Observation checklist
• Field note plan
Roles of participants in research design
seminar
What did you learn from attending seminars?
• Discuss in pair and mention three things related to the job description
of the seminar personnel?
 Responsibilities of proposer/presenter
• Give an overview about the proposal
• Answer questions
• Defend your argument
• Accept/reject ideas
 Responsibilities of a note taker
• Questions asked to discussants
• Suggestions from discussion
• Recommendation for the improvement of the proposal
 Responsibilities of discussants
• Ask questions to the presenter
• Clarification
• Exploration
• reasons

• Give recommendation and suggestions

• Comments on proposal writing
• Grammar
• citations
• Ideas to be included in each section
• suggestions