Bringing it all together

Now that you have seen some of the stages that you should go through when embarking on a research project, we will finish this week by giving you the chance to bring together what we have discussed in this course.

Your task

Write a draft proposal to investigate your research question.

You will find that the information you have captured in previous tasks helpful in identifying the following:

• The general problem that you wish to address
• A stakeholder analysis of those affected by your problem
• An analysis of exogenous factors that affect your problem
• The impact that your proposed research will have
• The refined objective of your research proposal
• The research questions or hypotheses that will help you reach this objective
• Your proposed data collection methodology and methods
• Your proposed analytical techniques

Bring all of these together and share it in the comments section. When you have done this take a moment to read and comment on the plans that your fellow learners have put together.

Try to make your comments apply to the following areas:

• The clarity and coherence introduced of the research proposal along with the strength of the justification.
• The analysis and whether internal and external factors have been comprehensively analysed.
• Whether the presented strategy is realistic to carry out research to address the research objectives.