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    A PhD proposal should be structured to address the key issues of what research will be conducted, previous related work, the proposed methodology, and importance. It is important to contact potential supervisors early to discuss research interests and negotiate a topic. The proposal should clearly define a problem and possible solution, and reference important academic papers on the topic.

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    A PhD proposal should be structured to address the key issues of what research will be conducted, previous related work, the proposed methodology, and importance. It is important to contact potential supervisors early to discuss research interests and negotiate a topic. The proposal should clearly define a problem and possible solution, and reference important academic papers on the topic.

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    Writing a PhD proposal

    http://www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/staff/sw/researchproposal.htm

    Stuart Watt - School of Computing at RGU


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    Writing a PhD proposal


    Here are a number of hints that may help you prepare a proposal for registering as a PhD topic. These apply even when you are building on one of our example topic areas, listed in the possible projects page. In fact, with these, it is often even more important that your unique contribution to these projects comes across clearly in the proposal. Note: Proposals are not wholly binding. They can (and must) change as the research progresses. They do, though, help us to work out (a) who might be appropriate supervisors, (b) how well you have thought out a small piece of research, and (c) roughly the kind of project you intend to tackle, and how you intend to tackle it. And that's really what the proposal is for.

    1. Talk to the department in advance


    Academic supervisors are allowed, and often even encouraged, to help you prepare a proposal in advance. This allows you and potential supervisors to negotiate a common interest in the topic of your research. If you don't contact a department in advance, it is more than likely that they won't be able to find potential supervisors with enough common interest. Feel free to email the named contact for the department, with a summary of your ideas, and they may be able to put you in touch with potential supervisors and others who might be able to help.

    2. Structure the proposal


    Before actually writing the proposal, it's a good idea to do a bit of research on what other people have done, and to find a nice clear statement of a problem that you are interested in tackling. We find that targeted proposals ones with a clear statement of a particular problem and possible solution, or a clear system to build tend to be much easier to write proposals about than open research topics. It is important that a proposal doesn't seem at all vague. If the proposal seems to read confidently, that will help it to be successful.

    3. Cover the "big four" issues


    A good proposal covers four main issues. These look like answers to these four questions: What am I going to do in my research? Who else has done research like this, and what did they do? How am I going to do this research? Why will this research be important to the academic community? A good proposal will have answers to all these questions, usually spending about half to two thirds of a page on each one.

    4. Attend to the method

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    Writing a PhD proposal

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    The other important part of a proposal is for us to get a clear idea of how you intend to pursue the proposed research. Questions that might be addressed in this section include: Am I going to build a system? What tools am I going to use to build it? How am I going to find evidence as to whether it is a good system?

    5. Select proposal references carefully


    An important part of the proposal is the background against which you are proposing to work. A good way of representing this is to carefully choose some of the more important academic papers that discuss this, and properly refer to them in your proposal. You are allowed (and even encouraged) to be constructively critical of this work if you intend to build on it.

    Prepared by: Stuart Watt Adapted from: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/news/proposal.htm Last updated: 17th April 2002

    Contact: sw (at) comp.rgu.ac.uk; tel: +44 (0)1224 26 2723; fax: +44 (0)1224 26 2727

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