Research Thesis Outline

Research Thesis Outline




Here is an easy outline for a research thesis. Enjoy!!!
For more detailed discussion, go to http://www2.hawaii.edu/~matt/proposal.html.

The Basic Thesis Outline

Introduction
  Topic area 
  Research question  (finding?)
  Significance to knowledge
Literature review
  Previous research
   others & yours 
  Interlocking findings and Unanswered questions
  Your preliminary work on the topic
  The remaining questions and inter-locking logic
  Reprise of your research question(s) in this context
Methodology
  Approach 
  Data needs
  Analytic techniques
  Plan for interpreting results
Results
Discussion and Conclusions
Bibliography 

Another outline (maybe from Gary Fuller?).

Introduction
  Topic area 
  Research Question and its significance to knowledge
Literature review
  Previous research
  Your preliminary work on the topic
  The remaining questions and their inter-locking logic
  Reprise of your resulting question in this context
Methodology
  Approach to answering the question
  Data needs
  Analytic techniques
  Plan for interpreting results
Budget
Expected results
Bibliography / References 

Each of these outlines is very similar. You get the idea of what the proposal does for you and organizing your thoughts and approach. The section below goes into slightly more (boring) detail on what each of the points in the outline is and does.

Good Luck!!

research outline

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

You are so lucky you got into this page! Here is an outline of a research proposal. Hope you enjoyed...(For more detailed discussion, go to http://www2.hawaii.edu/~matt/proposal.html" .

The (Longer) Standard Model

The two outlines below are intended to show both what are the standard parts of a proposal and of a science paper. Notice that the only real difference is that you change "expected results" to "results" in the paper, and usually leave the budget out, of the paper.

A Basic Proposal Outline:  

Introduction  

 Topic area    

 Research question    

 Significance to knowledge 

Literature review  

 Previous research    

  others & yours   

 Interlocking findings and Unanswered questions   

 Your preliminary work on the topic   

 The remaining questions and inter-locking logic   

 Reprise of your research question(s) in this context 

Methodology   

 Approach    

 Data needs   

 Analytic techniques   

 Plan for interpreting results 

Expected results 

Budget 

Bibliography (or References) 

Good Luck!!!