Transcript and Presenter’s Notes
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Thesis Proposal
- Nina Spada
- Second Language Education
- Curriculum, Teaching and learning
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Research proposal
- Convinces others that you have a worthwhile
project - Convinces others that you have the competence and
the work-plan to complete it
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Research Proposal
- What do you plan to accomplish?
- Why do you want to do it?
- How are you going to do it?
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Importance of Proposal
- Its the first significant piece of writing you
will do on your thesis - It will give you firsthand insights into the
complexity of the investigatory process and the
particular research area you have chosen - It provides your chair and committee members
evidence of your preparation to carry out the
research and of how you operate as a scholar.
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Most importantly
- The proposal serves as a blueprint for what you
intend to do - Specifies exactly how you plan to complete your
research - Ones research is only as good
- as ones proposal
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How binding is the proposal?
- Informal contract
- Viewed as binding in some disciplines
- No contract
- Recognition that changes occur during the process
of the research
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Elements of the proposal
- Introduction (Literature Review)
- Method
- Results
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Introduction (Literature Review)
- Two-chapter model
- Relatively short chapter that introduces topic,
provides a brief overview and state the research
problem and sometimes hypotheses - Longer chapter provides a critical, integrative
review of the literature - CHALLENGE to present sufficient information in
the first chapter for the reader to understand
why the research question is important without
being redundant with the longer chapter.
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Introduction (Literature Review)
- One chapter model
- Combined the material of the two-chapter version
into one - Begins with a brief introduction to topic,
launches into the literature review that
concludes with a statement of problem and
hypotheses - ADVANTAGE More streamlined and focused than
two-chapter model
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Contents of Literature Reivew
- Complete or abbreviated review?
- Funnel approach
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Method
- how its going to be done section
- Rule of thumb replicability
- Standard organizational framework
- Participants
- Setting
- Measures
- Procedures
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Analyses and Results
- Organizational sections
- Analyses
- detailing the procedures (quantitative or
qualitative) that you will use - Results
- Mock or anticipated results section
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Additional information
- Timeline
- Appendices
- Samples of instruments to be used in the
research, analytic frameworks etc.
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