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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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