Towards defining your research plan.
In the following a number of issues/questions are listed.
Your research plan should try to answer them all. Note that we
are NOT suggesting you follow a particular outline of your plan.
The disposition/outline of your plan is left to you.
How would you define/describe your research area?
How would you define/describe your research topic?
Which question(s) would you like to have answered
concerning this topic?
What is the practical or theoretical importance of answering
these questions? Which problems, experienced in the research or
practical community, may become solved?
How would you formulate you research problem? Please try to
delimit and clearly state your problem. State also your basic
assumptions.
How would your research fit the current research/context in
this field? What is the status of current research on this
topic?
Why should other researchers in this field find your
research interesting (significant)?
Describe your approach to tackling the problem (method(s),
tool(s), work phases, deliverables). Are there any *risks* in
not achieving the goals of your work?
What is your contribution to existing knowledge on this
topic of your work?
Make a first sketch of the table of contents of your
thesis
Suggest a time-plan for your research work. Which
*milestones* are there?
Present your first idea of a SUMMARY of your thesis.