NEF6001
Research Project Part A
Research Proposal
Research Title:
Trimester: 2 / 2019
Student Name:
Supervisor Name:
Total Mark= 20%
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND (Literature review) and OBJECTIVES 3
RESEARCH PROBLEMS 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE 3
CONCLUSIONS 4
RESEARCH PLANNING: 4
REFERENCES 4
INTRODUCTION
-explain about the topic and define the keywords and terminology
-explain why the area or field of your research is interesting and important for the other researches
-explain the history of the topic and trend of the researches
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND (Literature review) and OBJECTIVES
- Try to narrow the research field that you talked about in the introduction into the specific area,
- complete a structured, critical review of theoretical and experimental literature on the topic area
- Write about when and how and why this research field become attractive to the other researchers
- Explain methodologies, hardware, software, tools applicable in the field. Explain about the future research trend
- Discuss the thesis topic and your research contribution
- Try to categorize the literature background
RESEARCH PROBLEMS
- define a problem from contemporary and emergent settings
- What are your chosen research problems? Present problems by asking pertinent questions.
- Based on your expertise, knowledge, understanding of what you have learnt by studying the literature, what do you want to discover, reconfigure or resolve?
- The answer of how you want to do it will form the next section that it is “Research Methodology”
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- Formulate the research problem?
- Create an evidence-based research proposal,
- How do you -intend to do your research? Qualitative? Quantitative? Hybrid?
- How do you want to gather data? How do you want to process it?
- How do you want to recognise the variables?
- Do you intend to do model simulation? Which interfaces do you use?/What about the platforms/ software required?
- How you will extend your research to Research Project Part B.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE
What will be your contribution to human knowledge, enterprise, society, business, environment, ….. ?
What makes your research different from other research?
CONCLUSIONS
Conclude what you have done and write about your findings
RESEARCH PLANNING:
Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource Names

REFERENCES
The referencing convention that is applicable to this unit is—Harvard
Marking Scheme
Item Mark Received Mark
INTRODUCTION
2
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
3
RESEARCH PROBLEMS 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE 2
CONCLUSION 2
RESEARCH PLANNING 1
REFERENCES 2
General Format (Grammar, proposal structure, etc.) 2
Penalty for delay 0 (negative mark)
Total Mark 20
General Comment: