Writing a Proposal.ppt
- 1. Writing a Proposal Noor Shahariah Bt Saleh Faculty of Science, Technology and Human Development
- 2. What is a proposal? Proposal usually provides an overview of your project/research that includes: the research title the research problems the research method/procedure and analyses
- 3. What is a proposal? Proposal usually provides an overview of your project/research that includes: the research title the research problems the research method/procedure and analyses
- 4. Preparing a survey proposal Identifying a topic Narrowing a topic Forming a thesis statement
- 5. Identifying a topic • Generally, the main objective of implementing a survey research is to solve a problem which has been observed or identified • In technical writing, the problem can be initiated by a query of what and how things occur • Choose topic that reflects your interest and understanding
- 6. Narrowing a topic The English Language Proficiency among Malaysian A poor standard of English language proficiency among student
- 7. Continue…. A poor standard of English language proficiency among UTHM diploma students Factors that contribute to the poor standard of English language proficiency among UTHM diploma students
- 8. Forming a thesis statement Thesis statement is a written statement of the survey research main purpose
- 9. This survey research investigates the causes of the poor standard of English language proficiency among UTHM diploma students. Thus …
- 10. Writing up a proposal • Background of the study • Problem statements • Objectives • Significance of the study • Limitation of the study • Definition of terms • Procedure
- 11. Format for written proposal 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study • What do you want to investigate? • Explain the problems in detail (How do you see it as a problem?) • What is your part/ opinion in this problem?
- 12. – 1.2 Problem statements This research is undertaken to find solution to the following problems: 1.2.1………… 1.2.2………... – 1.3 Objectives The main purpose of this study is:/This study is done to achieve the following objectives 1.3.1 to identify…………. 1.3.2 to determine……… 1.3.3 to find out………
- 13. 1.4 Significance of the study - What is the rationale for conducting the study - Who is going to benefit from it? How? - What is the implication? 1.5 Limitation of study - What is the scope of the study in terms of space, location and samples? - What are the main constraints?
- 14. 1.6 Definition of terms Definition of main concepts of the research 1.6.1 1.6.2
- 15. • 1.7 Procedure The survey would be carried out using the following methods: 1.7.1 Documents - What are the information/data? - How are they collected? - Who collected the data? 1.7.2 Observation - What would be observed? - Who would be observed? - Where and when would it be observed? - How would the observation be done? 1.7.3 Survey - 1.7.3.1 Questionnaire - 1.7.3.2 Interview
- 16. Gantt chart Duration Tasks 1. Preparing materials for research 2. Writing up a proposal 3.Submission of the proposal 4.Designing a questionnaire 5.Distribution of questionnaires 6.Collecting the questionnaires
- 17. Continue….. Duration Tasks 7. Analysing data 8. Preparing a progress report 9. Oral presentation of progress report 10.Preparing data for final report 11. Writing findings for final report 12. Writing recommendation for final report