· What is the primary question you’re trying to answer?
o Do your secondary questions support it?
o If not, why are you asking them?
· What is your method and why is it appropriate to your primary question?
o What assumptions did you make and why are they valid for this problem?
o What data do you require to answer your primary question?
§ How will you obtain it?
§ How will you quality control it?
o What shortcomings / limitations do you see in your method?
§ Do they impact your ability to answer your primary question?
§ If so, how will you overcome them?
o What topics are you going to have to learn in order to execute your method?
· What results do you expect?
o How will you determine if your results are statistically significant?
o How will you physically interpret your results?
· Demonstrate that you have the background to do your proposed research
· And that you can think
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This page was last updated by George Young on December 9, 2014