Good Proposal Template

Kerry uploaded a good proposal template, which has eight closely related elements: key academic paper, research problem/gab in that academic paper, the importance of the research problem/gab in that academic paper, basic process model of to be developed, the central theory to be used, suitable evidences to fill the gab, the ways of collecting those evidences.

A good research proposal also needs logic and continuous flow of these eight elements rather than develops them as separated pieces. This means whenever we write a research paper, we have to consider the eight elements together where each element copes with each other. For example, research problem/gab in extant literature must be answered by developing a research model for which requires an appropriate theory to support. The evidence collected must be related the model we develop and be able to answer the research problem/gab. In this way, the research paper can make readers feel “comfortable” and trigger their interest of keeping on reading.

From my experience, it is not always easy to develop such a good research proposal with these eight closely related elements. Sometimes, although you have a good research problem and model, the data is hardly to collect, which force you to change your research topic. Sometimes, although you have good ways for collecting great data, you find it hard to make significant contribution to extant literature based on those available data. But this does not mean we are unable to develop a good research proposal following this template. If we can think thoroughly these elements together and conduct a sufficient amount of researches at the beginning to determine the feasibility of our thoughts, it can save lots of time when we write our research proposal.