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Pam Denicolo and Lucinda Becker recognize the importance of developing an effective research proposal for gaining either a place on a research degree program or funding to support research projects and set out to explore the main factors that that proposal writers need to attend to in developing successful proposals of their own. Developing Research Proposals will help readers to understand the context within which their proposal will be read, what the reviewers are looking for and will be influenced by, while also supporting the development of relevant skills through advice and practical activities. The authors draw together the key elements in the process of preparing and submitting a proposal and concludes with advice on responding to the results, successful or not, and their relevance to future proposals.
What Should be Included in the Introduction, Rationale and Literature Review?
What Should be Included in the Introduction, Rationale and Literature Review?
Chapter Overview
This chapter discusses:
- the reasons for including each of the early sections: introduction, rationale, literature review;
- what each should contain and why;
- details of the requirements of different forms of literature review;
- searching the literature;
- developing your argument.
Orientating the Reader to your Purpose
We are presenting these three topics that feature in proposals – introduction, rationale and literature review – using their most explicitly descriptive titles, because for some purposes and audiences these are potential sections of a document or they may be combined, with any two of them being sub-sections under the heading of the third. Alternatively, they could be presented as ‘introduction including a rationale and followed by a literature review’ or in some other formulation ...
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