Writing your research proposal

AT 3517 –Research
Project 1
Writing your research
proposal

Course work for AT3517
Statement of proposed research
topic (600 words).
Due 28th February.
Essay on one aspect of your research
topic (4000 words).
Due 4th May .

A research proposal should include
the following:
The general topic and/or research question.
The setting for any ethnographic research you intend to
carry out.
The role of the researcher (how you will go about doing the
research).
Your proposed methods of data collection.
Safety and ethical considerations.
An approximate timetable for the research.

Library Projects
If you intend to do a library project, you
will probably have a good idea of the
general area of your research and the
question you wish to address.
You will obviously not have an
ethnographic research setting… but,
otherwise you will have to address the
same sorts of issues in your proposal.

Research topic/question
You may at this stage not have a
clear idea of your research question…
…but a research question will help
you to focus your research and
reading.
It would be acceptable to propose a
number of possible questions in this
sort of proposal.