Proposal Writing

Writing a Proposal Noor Shahariah Bt Saleh Department of English Language and Linguistics

What is a proposal? Proposal usually provides an overview of your projectresearch that includes!

the research title the research problems the research method/procedure and analyses

Preparing a survey proposal Identifying a topic Narrowing a topic Forming a thesis statement 

"dentifying a topic • #enerally$ the main o%jective of implementing a survey research is to solve a problem  which has %een observed or identied • "n technical writing$ the pro%lem can %e initiated %y a query of what and how things occur • &hoose topic that re'ects your interest and understanding

Narrowing a topic  (he English Language Pro)ciency among *alaysian + poor standard of English language pro)ciency among student + poor standard of English language pro)ciency among ,(-* diploma students

Factors that contribute to the poor standard of English language prociency among U!" diploma students

.orming a thesis statement

 (hesis statement is a written statement of the survey research main purpose

This survey research investigates the causes of the  poor standard of English language prociency among UTHM diploma students.

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Writing up a proposal • #ac$ground of the study • Problem statements • %b&ectives • 'ignicance of the study • (imitation of the study • )enition of terms • Procedure / methodology • *onclusion • +eferences

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#ac$ground of the study

• What do you want to investigate? • Explain the problems in detail (How do you see it as a problem?) • What is your part/ opinion in this problem?

• 012 Pro%lem statements

his research is underta$en to nd solution to the following problems0 ,-1-,2222 ,-1-1222---

• ,-3 %b&ectives  (he main purpose of this study is!(his study is done to achieve the following o%jectives 01310 to identify////1 01312 to determine/// 01313 to )nd out///

014 'ignicance of the study 4 What is the rationale or conducting the study  ! Who is going to bene"t rom it? How? ! What is the implication? ,-5 (imitation of study 5 What is the scope o the study in terms o space# location and samples? 5 What are the main constraints?

1.6 Definition of terms Definition of main concepts of the research 1.6.1 1.6.2

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,-6 Procedure  (he survey would %e carried out using the following methods! ,-6-, )ocuments 5 What are the informationdata? 5 -ow are they collected? 5 Who collected the data? ,-6-1 %bservation 4 What would %e o%served? 5 Who would %e o%served? 5 Where and when would it %e o%served? 5 -ow would the o%servation %e done? ,-6-3 'urvey

5 0161310 7uestionnaire 5 0161312 "nterview

#antt chart Duration

Tasks

1. Preparing materials

for research

2. Writing up a proposal

3.Submission of the proposal

4.Designing a questionnaire

5.Distribution of questionnaires

6.ollecting the questionnaires

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Tasks

!. "nal#sing $ata

%. Preparing a progress report

&. 'ral presentation of progress report

1(.Preparing $ata for final report

11. Writing fin$ings for final report

12. Writing recommen$ation for final report