Khamis dan Jumaat lepas saya ada attended seminar writing thesis proposal. It is by Prof Noorzan Mohd Noor. Saya ada beli buku hasil tulisan Prof title on Writing Research & Thesis Proposals Guidelines & Examples. I bought before I registered for my PhD to write on the proposal.
What is the input?
She advice us to read full thesis research in our area at least 3 research paper.
On the writing part, she said that a good proposal depends on the backbone of the thesis which is introduction part. For thesis, we need to change the tenses. Proposal need to be write in the future tense while full thesis report basically will be writing on the pas tenses because it is actually had been DONE!
This is very important!
She asked us, how many word should be in our thesis. Okey, this memang terkial - kial nak jawab. It depends on the faculty. PhD thesis basically should be different from others and all around the world and we should avoid plagiarism, of course!
There are a lot more information that we got, what among the important things that I had learned is on how to write an introduction.
- from general to specific
- sort references, sort LR
- link problems and solutions (HARD!)
- write LR first before method (pls take note)
- introduce topic, provide background, indicate gap and state purpose.
Chapter one - is the most difficult to write but need to be finish. It must be clear - interesting.
Research background - LR not just listing - research - years - why relevant?
Research questions - has to be focus - (3 t0 5 RQ is good enough)
Significance - practical value in solving problem value to policy development - contribution to the theory. The criteria should cover - originality - can promote further investigation?
An example of significance:
1)Previous study have shown importance of innovation in entrepreneurship etc....
2) This study will provide the importance of level of innovation in order to sustain in the services industry...
Problem statement: (what you expect to achieve)
Scope and Limitation: An example:-
This study concentrate on the Bumiputera entrepreneurs in services industry which cover Selangor and Wilayah Persekutuan. Cocentration only 30% of the total entrepreneurs in services industry might limit the data. Additional to this, there are already mush study on Bumiputera.
Literature Review
- need the conceptual framework
- link
- critically review
- narrow LR - focus on keywords
- do literature search
Structure of LR
1) Intro - define topic - trends - gaps - theme
2) Main body - Sources - dates - method
3) Conclusion - area what we wanted to do
Skill in LR - survey - select - analyzed - synthesizing
Then, Prof thought us few basic skills how to synthesizing LR. Do it in table. I had done this.
Methodology
In this chapter I believe that we should confirm the RO with our supervisor then we could clarify what method that we could used. SPSS or AMOS or whatever should be match with our objectives.
We also should look for reliable sources and unreliable sources include fb, twitter and etc.
This snap during the lecture:-
