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.
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