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Research Proposal Plan
Research Proposal Plan
Research Proposal Plan
• A. INTRODUCTION
1. Topic: description, definition + place it in the literature = the literature
review (what other people say!)
• N.B.: Do NOT FORGET to show WHERE you get the
ideas/information from: REFERENCES IN THE TEXT:
e.g.: When you quote put: before or after the quotation: (FAMILY
NAME of writer, Year of publication of book/article and page where the
quotation comes from ), e.g.:
• ‘(...) some researchers (...) distinguish between acquisition and learning.
The former refers to the subconscious process of picking up a language
through exposure and the latter to the conscious process of studying it’
(Ellis, 1994: 14) (my emphasis/emphasis added/ emphasis in the original).
Research Proposal Plan
• C. CONCLUSIONS:
• 1. results of analysis (what you will/may
find in the analysis)
• 2. interpretation of results = conclusions =
YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
5. Research Proposal Plan
• REQUIREMENTS:
• font: Times New Roman
• font size: 12
• line spacing: 1,5
• blocked paragraphs + full justification (no indentation, with a
blank line between paragraphs)
• Long quotations (more than two lines):
• font size: 10
• line spacing: single
• indent them (two ‘tabs’)
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• COVER PAGE:
• Name of course: LANGUAGE AND
SOCIETY
• Title of research proposal
• Name of author (& year/group)