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Certificate of Achievement
Dr. Naraginti Amareswaran Reddy
has completed the following course:
How to Write a PhD Research Proposal
This course taught learners how to structure, define, and present a research idea in writing, importance of literature review and how to plan and manage a research project.
4 weeks, 5 hours per week
Anne Moen
Professor - Department of Nursing Science
University of Oslo
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop your research statement with objectives and sub-questions
- Discuss sample data collection strategies and analysis of the empirical material that you will collect
- Assess ways to ensure that the proposed PhD-study will follow conventions that help ensure reliability, validity, and ethical conduct
- Evaluate and use what you have learned by submitting and receiving feedback on your proposal draft each week
- Evaluate and reflect on your work with help from your peers, course educators, and mentors
- Collaborate with your peers and find ways to solve possible challenges during your PhD studies
- Explain how you will organize and structure your PhD
- Identify previous relevant research to discover gaps and why your research matters
Syllabus
- Defining the research idea and writing a research statement with objectives and sub-questions
- Identifying and writing a literature summary and review
- Empirical, conceptual, or theoretical foundations of a research study
- Research ethics, fraud, and plagiarism in research
- Research design and methodological approaches
- Data collection strategies, sampling, instruments, and biases
- Fieldwork and contingency planning
- How to organize your PhD project
Issued on 10th November 2019
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