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Research Project I

This document serves as a guideline for undergraduate students in Ethiopia on how to conduct research proposals across various departments. It outlines essential components such as the introduction, literature review, research methods, and the structure of the final research paper. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of defining research problems, objectives, and methodologies while providing a framework for organizing and presenting research findings.

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Research Project I

This document serves as a guideline for undergraduate students in Ethiopia on how to conduct research proposals across various departments. It outlines essential components such as the introduction, literature review, research methods, and the structure of the final research paper. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of defining research problems, objectives, and methodologies while providing a framework for organizing and presenting research findings.

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A Guide line for Conducting Research

proposal for under graduate students for all


Departments

(Year ____Term ____or Year____)

July 2021

A.A, Ethiopia

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CHAPTER ONE
1 Introduction:
1.1.Background of study
General, description of the study area in order to whet the appetite of the reader about the topic.

1.2 Problem statement:


State the problem carefully to show how it is a problem, and link it to given fact if possible to
show the implications of the problem and relating such to its symptoms.

1.3 Research questions


They serve as a guide to you in your quest to provide answers to the decision (main) problems to
be investigated. They are more specific and drawn from the main problem at hand.

1.4 The general and specific Objective (s):


Why the research, i.e. objectives, what would be covered in the research work.

1.5 Delimitation and scope of study:


This is for the circumscribing of the work within a manageable limit. the delimitation and scope
spells out those things that will not be covered in the research for proper management purposes
of the research work. It is different from the limitation as would later be discussed in chapter
three.
1.6 Significance of the Research: It is the justification or importance of the work to
stakeholders. It also deals with the research contribution or addition to knowledge and or
knowledge development.

1.7 Definition of (unfamiliar) terms:


This serves as a dictionary of the report in a form of an operating definition of concepts,
constructs, words, group of words and acronyms that the researcher would be using in the
research work.
1.8. Organization of study:-under this all unit one up five what it contains( listed each unit or
chapter)

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Chapter Two:
2. Review of Relevant Literature and Theoretical Framework:
2.1. Theoretical concept
A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars
and researchers. In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what
knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses
are. As a piece of writing, the literature review must be defined by a guiding concept. Besides
enlarging your knowledge about the topic, writing a literature review lets you gain and
demonstrate skills in two areas:
Thus a literature review must do the following things:
A. Be organized around and related directly to the thesis or research question you are
developing;
B. Synthesizes results into a summary of what is and is not known;
C. Identify areas of controversy in the literature; and
D. Formulate questions that need further research.

CHAPTER THREE
3. Method
Research Design/Frame (this is ideally written in the future tense in the proposal, but in the past
tense in research paper)
3.1 Research design:
This is simply the framework or plan for a study used as a guide in collecting and analyzing data
(blueprint) relating to the purpose/objective of the research. It must be in line with the stated
objective(s) in Chapter One.

3.2 Research Approaches


You might need to restate your research questions and or hypotheses now that you’ve read more
and know more about the topic. If nothing has change then you leave them as they were in
chapter one.
3.3 The study of population: The population of the study is a census of all items or subjects that
possess the characteristics or that have knowledge of the phenomenon, being studied.
Use only the “Working population” rather than the universal population.

3.4 Sampling techniques and procedure:


Are you adopting a random or non-random sampling method, and why the choice? Your size of
the sample must tally with what you propose to do.
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3.5 Data collection instrument (tools):
This is the device for collecting data or measuring the variable, which is used for answering
research questions and or testing hypotheses. The data collection schedule (i.e. schedule of
instruments) is a questionnaire that is designed to measure several variables.

3.6 Pilot studies:


These are conducted to pre-test the study schedule, to validate the study schedule, especially for
newly developed studies. The research instruments must be tested for validity and reliability
(operational definition of variables).

3.7 Data processing procedure:


The researcher needs to state, beforehand, how he plans to process the data generated, based on
the characteristics of the data/scale used to get the data. This must also relate to the purpose as
well.
3.8. Data Analysis: - This section summarizes the methods used to analyze the data. The
rationale for the choice of analysis approaches should be clear. This section then describes data
handling, preliminary analysis, statistical tests, computer programs, and other technical
information.

APPENDICES:
At the very end of the document e.g. your approved research proposal, sample of the
Questionnaire(s) distributed to the respondents, Maps, detailed data, cover letters etc. are
attached to your project.

REFERENCES:
List all the references/citations in the report at the back of the project as part of the references.
This must be done in accordance with the APA house style. Never include any references that
have not been used in the report in the reference list.

1.1. Summary Format of Research prop[ozal


Components of Final Research Paper (year three term 3)
Title/cover page
Declaration page
Front matters

Board of Examiners approval sheet


Acknowledgment
Abstract
Table of contents
List of tables (Required if your report contains tables)
List of figures (Required if your report contains
Acronyms

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 Research objective
1.4 Significance of the study
1.5 Scope of the study

Body of the text


1.6 limitation of the study
1.7 Organization of the paper
Chapter Two: Literature Review
Chapter Three: Research Method

References

matters
Appendixes

End

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