You can not get admission to the academia unless your university approves your proposal. What if you have worked hard to make a cogent proposal and it is rebuffed by your committee?
This blog talks about the significant causes of dismissal of a proposal and also how you can make a good attempt to avoid those errors.
You didn’t follow formatting guidelines
The first thing that a research board will analyse whether or not you have followed the submission guidelines. Make sure that you are fully aware of your university’s instructions and haven’t slipped up anywhere in layout, margins, font size, word limit and so forth.
You forgot to mention the following things
- Importance of your problem statement
There is an infinite number of problems out of which you have to pick the one that is worth solving, and you also have to convince your university staff that your research will result in solutions that would be contributing to the area of your research.
For instance, if your topic is “Challenges encountered by cybercrime investigation authorities,” you have to mention problems, for example, gathering of evidence, that are commonly faced by authorities to catch perpetrators. Further, you will also notify how these impediments wreak havoc on an investigation and are increasing the rate of cybercrime. You will also give details of expected solutions such as software to detect suspicious activities, widespread awareness among people etc that will help prevent cybercrime. This will make your committee understand your research problem in-depth and expected outcomes that would benefit the university.
- Why this time
You are not alone who has been working on the same problem. Your research committee will ask you if there is any possibility to go ahead with the same problem and get any novel output.
For instance, having researched the effects of “Postpartum depression on mothers and their infants development” for decades, many medicines have been put out to control psychological impairment of kids who had been neglected by their moms due to depression. So what new can be done to solve this problem?
You have to tell how different studies have helped pharmaceuticals discover more and more causes of postpartum depression that assisted them to manufacture medicines or healers accordingly. Besides, how your research is going to be unique to find a solution to treat a cause that has been left unexplored to date.
- Why you are a right person
You have convinced your readers that the problem you have chosen is worthwhile to be solved, but your work doesn’t end here. You have to make them believe that you are a right person to do it. You have to tell on your qualities that other researchers might not have to carry out research on your chosen topic.
The purpose is not clearly stated
You must ensure that you have stated the objective of your research explicitly. The easier to find information in a proposal, the higher the chances of acceptance.
Other mistakes
A research proposal reflects your credibility and writing ability to convey right message to the audience. So before submitting a proposal to your committee, you should thoroughly edit to check subject-verb agreement, spellings and grammatical errors.
Follow these guidelines to mend errors in your proposal. You should also take the help of your supervisor.