Workshop 5: how to write a proposal

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 20 min

Questions

• What are the elements of study proposal?

• How to write a study proposal using UC template?

Objectives

• Learn to write a study proposal using the UC template

How to write a research proposal?

• Have a plan of background literature archiving
• Have a plan of writing the literature review
• Write the background section
• Write the literature review
• Write the methods section
• Fill in the budget section
• Fill in the Ethics application form

Start by reading some helpful guidance:

Guidance from the library

Read an article and populate the spreadsheet

• Many arguments per article.
• Make an argument data bank for yourself
• Use this data bank as you like

Download this spreadsheet and save it on your drive:

Argument Bank

Download the worksheet for writing your proposal

Worksheet

Key Points

• Study proposals have three elements: background, review of literature, and methods

• In background, introduce the main concept and the gaps in the literature

• In the methods section, lay out the steps you will take to complete the study