Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Requirements towards writing proposal
I am suppose to start working on proposal draft as I already have one conference publication by now.
I am tryign to gather information as to which format do we follow and also how to approach this. For any research there is one main problem (main area of research). That main area consists of many sub problems(each of them likely a publication). I talked to Anindo Roy yesterday. He is a PhD student here at UALR. According to him, we can take 2 routes for proposal defence.
1. One can form the advisory committe and put in the initial proposal immediately mentioning the significance of the problem and suggest what he/she plans to solve it. Offcourse there would be suggestions from the committee and then you go ahead with your research as discussed with everyone.
2. The second track which is rare or more difficult at times, is to talk to advisor about problem statement and its significance. Once that is established, start with survey, finalize few ideas and straight away get on with the research work. Publish few papers and then propose to the advisory committee about it.
In the later option, you risk being incomplete on wrong path of research if the advisory board feels that way. You also have to write exhaustive report in second case. You should be able to convince yourself and board with some preliminary results showing potential of the research.
On the other hand, first approach is rather easy and needs small writeup as proposal draft. But also the importance of the problem could be questioned. It is not worry anymore in second case as you already have a few publications to your credit in that field.
I am following second route and plan to publish one or two more papers before I actually submit proposal draft formally.
As for the problem of how to approach, I am still thinking about it. I need to be exhustive enough to explain each sub-problem in detail and also show some results in each case.
More later on this issue.
I am tryign to gather information as to which format do we follow and also how to approach this. For any research there is one main problem (main area of research). That main area consists of many sub problems(each of them likely a publication). I talked to Anindo Roy yesterday. He is a PhD student here at UALR. According to him, we can take 2 routes for proposal defence.
1. One can form the advisory committe and put in the initial proposal immediately mentioning the significance of the problem and suggest what he/she plans to solve it. Offcourse there would be suggestions from the committee and then you go ahead with your research as discussed with everyone.
2. The second track which is rare or more difficult at times, is to talk to advisor about problem statement and its significance. Once that is established, start with survey, finalize few ideas and straight away get on with the research work. Publish few papers and then propose to the advisory committee about it.
In the later option, you risk being incomplete on wrong path of research if the advisory board feels that way. You also have to write exhaustive report in second case. You should be able to convince yourself and board with some preliminary results showing potential of the research.
On the other hand, first approach is rather easy and needs small writeup as proposal draft. But also the importance of the problem could be questioned. It is not worry anymore in second case as you already have a few publications to your credit in that field.
I am following second route and plan to publish one or two more papers before I actually submit proposal draft formally.
As for the problem of how to approach, I am still thinking about it. I need to be exhustive enough to explain each sub-problem in detail and also show some results in each case.
More later on this issue.
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