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Title: Crafting your thesis proposal
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Crafting your thesis proposal final paper
- Dr C Gabrielle Salfati
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- The following tips will
- Provide you with a good example of exactly what a proposal looks
like - Outline what gets into to every section within the
thesis - Demonstrate steps to make may well growth and development of a
research question - The most crucial factor to bear in mind is
- A thesis is really a well told story, and every good
story includes a good plot, that is developed
through the story, so STRUCTURE is essential to some
well-written thesis.
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The Study Proposal
- Part one of the thesis will probably be your
RESEARCH PROPOSAL. You will have to pass this in
to carry on and finish the particular
thesis research itself. - The following section will highlight what’s needed
inside a thesis proposal, and can show you through
how you can complete it to the stage needed.
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The Study Proposal
The study proposal includes the very first 4
sections
of the thesis.
- 1 page summary of your subject
- Justify the requirement for your particular study by
writing single page summary of your thesis - An overview of the literature review
- What’s been aware of subject
- What’s missing
- Show the way your study aims derive from an
look at the lit review - Your particular aims
- Your methodology section
- Participants and access thereof
- Data collection method
- Style of materials (questionnaire, information on
coding dictionary etc) - Analysis to become done
- Ethical factors
- An IRB proposal if your are needed
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One particualr Proposal
- The next slides provides you with a step-by-step
help guide to how you can complete each portion of the
thesis
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Youthful Individuals Who SEXUALLY ABUSE
- One particualr
- Research Proposal Outline
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Setting the scene Your 1-page introduction
What information ought to be incorporated?
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Setting the scene Your 1-page introduction
- Because the 1990s there’s been an increasing
awareness within the United kingdom that youngsters and youthful
people under 18 years, sexually abuse (Erooga
1999). - Condition the issue
- Recent research within the United kingdom (National Childrens
Homes, 1992) has proven this group provides
a truly alarming 30 from the yearly figure for those
sexual offences. - Place a you’ll need it
- Despite these figures, an analysis
carried out through the Office At Home (1998) in to the
services for sex offenders discovered that the biggest
and many problematic gap was at the supply for
youth sex offenders. - Reiterate the issue considering the figures
- Sanders (1999) survey of practitioners further
highlights that many practitioners within the field
found themselves immobilised by the possible lack of
specific understanding on youth sex offenders. - Place it inside a practical context
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Lit review
What information ought to be incorporated?
How if it is structured?
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Lit review
- Each primary point/research highlighted within the
1-page introduction ought to be another section
within the lit review, in which you enter in the research
which has worked with this particular point. - Include what we should know (i.e the other research has
done) and just what we have no idea (i.e. what issues
haven’t been solved satisfactorily within the
literature. Which provides an chance to
make use of this like a justification for your reason for
taking a number of these points nad carrying out a
study investigating them). - The most crucial factor would be to make certain that
- Exactly what gets into, is DIRECTLY highly relevant to
the issue (make certain you’ve got a very specific
thesis title to be able to define the problem you’re
searching at it can help you become more specific in
your literature search, and can help you
structure the literature review. You could
change it out later if necessary)
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Lit review
- Begin with a lead-in (a listing of what we should know
and just what we have no idea), e.g. - Models (e.g. Finkelhor 1984 Lane and Zamora
1982) happen to be designed to explain adult sexual
offending. However, nothing comparable are available for
youth sex offending. Most professionals working
with youthful people thus end up adapting
types of adult sex offending to be able to deal
with children, that is inappropriate and largely
ineffective.
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- Include an introduction to the appliances Are now being
used (ie the adult ones) and highlight what we should
may take after that to take to build up models
for youthful offenders. - If there’s any research on youthful offenders that
may be used to comprehend the issues better, give
a short summary of these too, e.g. - The study transported out to date in this region has
mainly been exploratory and descriptive.
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- Then make use of this like a walking stone to focus on to
what any project will cope with (aims),
e.g. - This project calls for classifying the big
heterogeneous population of youth sex
perpetrators into significant subgroups from
which, common factors and mental processes
that lead for their sexual aggression, can
be viewed. This can inform practitioners about
the aetiology and developmental courses of those
youthful people, and can permit them to use the
best and tailored treatment methods to
each group. - Make certain this aim goes full circle to
tackle the primary problem uncovered within the first
paragraph which set the scene.
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Aims
What information ought to be incorporated?
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Aims
- Condition the precise research aims/hypothesis within this
section - Be obvious and concise
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The Methodology Section
- This should detail how you want to
answer your queries specified by your
aims. - You have to consider what the best
databases could be (files, individuals to interview
etc), and just how you’d can get on (this is actually the
time for you to consider such things as ethical approval
and IRB) - You have to consider how to collect the
information, i.e. utilizing a coding dictionary (a
listing of variables), and interview schedule (a
listing of questions), market research etc. - You have to consider exactly what the
advantages/disadvantages have this databases
(e.g. could it be an agent sample, could it be a
biased sample, could it be a little sample etc) - You have to describe your computer data collection method
at length, and justify it when it comes to how good it
can help you collect the required information
required to answer the questions you have. - And lastly, you have to discuss what kinds of
analyses is easily the most appropriate to complete so as
to reply to your aims.
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Data
What information ought to be incorporated?
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Data
- What kinds of cases is going to be used (i.e. cases
files of youthful sexual users) - How would you access them, and also have you already
made connection with the appropriate agencies (i.e.
do you know the chances that you’ll access this
information) - The reason for while using sources/agencies you’re
(justification) - What exactly are you collecting, e.g.
- Information is going to be collected to be able to reflect
an array of key elements that the
interpersonal violence literature has highlighted
is essential when it comes to understanding sex
offending, and particularly youth sex offending.
Included in this are - The situational factors that brought towards the occasions
- Relationships between your perpetrator and also the
victim - The character from the dynamics between your
perpetrator and also the victim - The particular behavioural compositions from the
occasions - The options from the perpetrators and
victims
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Data Analysis
What information ought to be incorporated?
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Data Analysis
- What analysis will be performed
- The reason for selecting methods you’re
- Just how can this analysis answer the questions you have
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Ethical Factors
- Condition how to cope with any ethical
issues/concerns
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To be able to pass the thesis proposal (it’s a
pass or fail), the next must be incorporated
- Obvious research question, that’s relevant and
do-able - Thorough review, and understanding, of
appropriate, best literature (and then any
linked literature as needed), to back research
question, and presented inside a logical manner - Selection of most suitable research methodology
for study, and thorough understanding of what’s
needed to be able to produce valid and reliable
study - Obvious description of methodology, and thorough
research of information collection measures, linking
this clearly towards the aims from the study - Appropriate choice of participant along with a obvious
knowledge of ethical issues - Good reflection of the items analysis is most
suitable for aims as well as for methodology
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You have already completed the thesis proposal
- What goes on next.
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- After you have completed, and passed, the proposal
stage, you’re then prepared to do your computer data
collection and your data analysis. - The tighter your proposal is, the clearer you
is going to be by what the primary issues will be to your
research, and also the simpler it will likely be that you should
complete all of those other thesis.
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Writing your results section
- Your results section should stick to the same
structure as the aims section - that ought to stick to the same structure from the
lit review - that ought to stick to the same structure because the
introduction - remember structure is essential to some well
written thesis!
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- Each aim ought to be another portion of your
results. - And every should begin with re-iterating the goal,
and your reason for searching at this aim. You need to
then generate the problems in the methodology
section that was targeted at that specific aim,
i.e. should you collected a particular quantity of
variables concerning this specific aim, condition
the results will concentrate on these variables,
and re-iterate why again.. - Then you definitely discuss what analysis ended, and
here you re-iterate the reason why you chose that exact
kind of analysis (i.e. since it was the very best
suited to that which you required to do) - Then you definitely outline your results, using tables or
figures where necessary. - For any real-world study (versus experimental
studies in which you tend to hang about until the
discussion section to get this done), after that it makes
more sense that you should summarise the outcomes at
the finish of the section, and discuss what your
results mean (when it comes to answering your goal). - Then you definitely proceed to the following aim, begin a new
results section, and feel the whole process
again. - After you have completed all of the necessary
sections, next get one big summary
section in the finish from the results section where
you highlight the important thing findings OVERALL.
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The discussion/conclusion section
- The final portion of your thesis may be the
discussion. Here you decide to go outside your study, and
that which you found (remember you’ve already
spoken relating to this within the results section) to speak
by what the broader implications of the study
would be to the area in general i.e. has your study
managed to cope with a number of individuals key items you
pointed out inside your 1-page introduction? - By looking into making the hyperlink to the beginning of your thesis,
you have already come full circle.
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- After you have spoken concerning the theoretical
implications of the study, next talk
about - Any methodological problems you’d (and you
have recognized as disturbing your
results), and just how future studies may prevent them - Any more research questions that emerged as
being important, which others within the
future might want to cope with to be able to fully
explore the region - And then any practical implications (if relevant) of
your theoretical results.
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Finally
- Things never to forget to include in the finish
- References (APA style)
- Any appendices
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