What comes to your mind when you read or hear the word PROPOSAL?

What comes to your mind may include;

• Applying for an academic program
• Planning for something
• Approval of ideas
• Dissertation writing

DEFINITION: A clear plan written in the futuristic showing how a researcher intends to write their dissertation (Robindos Research Consultancy, 2020).

• At Robindos Research Consultancy we help our clients to write dissertation proposals using the guidelines of their respective universities.

Dissertation proposal structure!!!

There is no fixed structure writing a proposal and usually universities and supervisors provide their preferred structure. However, the common structure at Robindos Research Consultancy is as follows;

• Preliminary
• Title page 
• Table of Content Page
• Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
• Background to the study
• Statement of the problem
• Aim of study
• Objectives of study
• Research questions & or hypotheses
• Significance of study
• Assumptions Scope (delimitations)
• Limitations
• Definition of terms 
• Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
• Under subheadings related to the objectives of the research 
• Chapter 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 
• Research design/plan, Data collection methods, Sampling Research instruments, Methods of data presentation and analysis.   
• Work Plan, Time schedule   
• Research Budget
• References