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Create an example of methodology in research proposal

If you have to write a dissertation, you may have to write a research proposal. If you do, you will need to know how to write an example of methodology in research proposal that demonstrates how you are going to conduct your own original research. If all of this sounds like a freaky alien language, don’t worry, once the steps of a research proposal have been broken down, it is not such a frightening concept. From there you can see how to create an example of methodology.

Sometimes, our imaginations run away with us and we make jobs that we have to do far more frightening than they really are. Unfortunately, this is often the case when it comes to researching and writing a dissertation. The reason for this is that there are so many new skills to be learned and conquered. However, if you relax and follow the steps offered to you here, you will see that, for instance, methodology in the research proposal is just another task to be worked through. Therefore, read this article and you will learn:

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  • What is the title? The title is one of the aspects of both your proposal and your dissertation that will change over time. if you think of it as a working title for the time being but plan to get it as strong but concise as possible, your mind will keep working at it at a subconscious level to tighten it up. This is something to discuss with your supervisor when you are getting feedback on your proposal. Do ask about the title’s adequacy.
  • What is the problem? This is the thesis of your dissertation. In other words, the main point or argument that you wish to research. For instance, “technology is contributing to obesity in children.”
  • What is your aim? At this point, you need to know your statement of intent. In other words, what you will offer up for your hypothesis. For instance, “Children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale that spend three hours or more per evening on the internet or watching television are more likely to suffer from obesity than children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale that spend one hour or less per evening on the internet or watching television.”
  • What are your objectives? Basically, these are your sub questions. These are going to either confirm or deny your hypothesis so it is essential that you choose them properly. For instance, you might need to find out “How many children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale are obese?” “How many obese children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale spend three hours or more on the internet or watching television in the evening?” “If obese children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale cut their internet and television time down to one hour per evening do they lose weight?”
  • What is the background on your subject? For your proposal, this is a concise summary of the most recent thinking on the subject. For instance, you would need to know what the latest research on the subject is and what is being written about it. You would also explain about how views may be divided on the topic and if there are any areas left to be explored.
  • What will be your research strategy? This is where you will advise on the methods of research that you will use. You’ll explain how you will conduct your research and how it will relate back to your research questions. You will also have to consider the financial side of your research and whether your research will be valid.
  • What will your conclusion cover? This is where you will describe what you imagine the outcome of your research will be. You will also need to explain why you think your research is particularly important and who might benefit from it. A word of warning here – although you have to present your research as being significant, don’t be tempted to sound as if you are the next Isaac Newton or Louis Pasteur.
  • How will your work be broken down? This is basically a timetable of your dissertation tasks. It really is worth doing, mainly to give yourself deadline dates. The reason for this is that research has shown that if students have one deadline date for their papers to handed in, they don’t get as much done early on as if they had several deadline dates for smaller tasks.
  • What will you reference? Make sure that your proposal has a full list of works, papers and experts that are cited in your work.
  • Have you made a plan of your dissertation? If you make a plan that has chapter headings that are then broken down into sub headings, you will get a good overview of where you are going with your dissertation. If you use this in conjunction with your timetable and deadlines, you will be able to move comfortably from task to task.

Now that you know the basics of how you are going to present your research proposal, we can concentrate on examples of the methodology that you might use in it. For the sake of ease, let’s stay with the hypothesis “Children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale that spend three hours of more per evening on the internet or watching television are more likely to suffer from obesity than children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale that spend one hour or less per evening on the internet or watching television.” To conduct this research and prove or disprove that your hypothesis is correct, you need to use research methods to answer your sub questions or objectives. Each question will require different methods of research.

In order for your example of methodology in your research proposal to be viable, you will need to explain why you have chosen each method to answer each research question. You will also need to demonstrate how you applied each method and why you believe that it is viable.

Let’s regard the first sub question of the example – “How many children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale are obese?” To answer this research question, you would need to use quantitative research. In other words, research that deals with statistics. You would also have use a measurable quantity when describing an obese child. This means, for instance, calculating height and weight to assess BMI. This is body mass index. It also means that you have to differentiate between children that are considered overweight and children that are described as obese or your research could be considered invalid if the two were mixed up. For instance, children that have a BMI that is 85% higher than other children of the same age and sex are considered overweight. Whereas, children that have a BMI that is 95% higher than other children over the same sex and age are considered obese. Specific details like this are of the most importance when conducting research for a dissertation.

The next sub question that you would need to answer is “How many obese children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale spend three hours or more on the internet or watching the television per evening.” At this point, it would be important to clarify that the time spent would include directly after finishing school and times thereafter. The reason for this is that confusion could be caused by interviewees misunderstanding and not counting in the time directly after school.

  • Ensure that you use a sample audience for filling in your survey. For instance, it is no use giving it to all school children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale because you are studying the effects of technology on obesity. The survey should only be offered to participants that fit the criteria of your research.
  • If you are using multiple choice questions, you may need to have an ‘other’ choice. This must be followed by a line to fill in the answer. The reason for this is that multiple questions often do not offer all possibilities and can lead to subjects not answering the question at all or giving the wrong answer.
  • You must check that question are not ambiguous or complicated. Misunderstandings can lead to invalid data which is not good for your dissertation.
  • Offer a deadline date for when the survey has to be completed if you are not doing it personally. The reason for this is that if you don’t, the chances are that it will be put away and forgotten. Unfilled in surveys do not collect data for you.

At this point, you would have collected statistics that tells you how many children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale are obese. You have also conducted a survey using a sample of the population that tells you “how many obese children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale spend three or more hours per evening on the internet or watching television. Your next step is to distinguish if obese children (under the age of 11) in Rochdale lose weight if they cut down their three hours of internet or television to one hour per evening.

To do this, you could either research whether a study of this type had already been carried out and critically analyse the results. Or, if you were particularly well organised and ambitious, you could find families that were willing to participate in your study and research the subject yourself. This would mean:

  • Having the weights of the children that were being included in the study measured before it began.
  • Deciding upon a strict time frame for how long your experiment would last.
  • Families filling in sheets every evening that recorded how long the child spent on the internet or watching television. The reason for this is that if respondents aren’t paying close attention to this, they may slip back into their previous habits or underestimate the amount of time that a child is watching television or on the internet.
  • Weigh the children after the study had been completed.
  • It might also be worthwhile to do some face to face interviews at the end of the study to find out what the children were doing instead of being on the internet or watching television. For instance, if you discover weight losses, it could be because they were outside playing games and taking regular exercise as opposed to sitting in front of a machine

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