While we are waiting for the feedback for our literature review, it is important to start thinking about plan for proposal. I usually write this kind of paper using the following plan:
1. Relevance
2. Literature review
1. Research gap
You need to show that nobody have studied this topic from your particular scientific perspective (time frame, side, etc.)
3. Research Question
Shows what the research is about; must show the end point of the research — research in itself is not an objective; research question must be just one
4. Hypothesis
Supposed explanation to the research question; it can be wrong (research result may contradict some conventional positions in science, which may lead to scientific revolution)
5. Methodology
– a very long part
– theoretical framework (tells us about the things we will look at)
– method – a tool to work with data to find some causalities, correlation, etc
– methodology – plan of using methods
– what data will be used in the research
– with what we won’t work
– sequence of methods