Title:
Proposals that work : a guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals
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Edition:
2nd ed
Publication Information:
Newbury Park, Calif : Sage 1987
ISBN:
9780803929869
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Summary
Summary
Proposals That Work is about how to prepare effective research proposals for graduate theses and dissertations. A major part of the book comments on specimen proposals from a number of social science disciplines. The second edition of this extremely successful guide gives a deeper coverage of the grants process and grant proposal writing, as well as an extra section on qualitative research proposals.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 Writing The Proposal |
| Function of the Proposal |
| Developing the Thesis or Dissertation Proposal |
| Some Common Problems |
| Content of the Proposal |
| Important Considerations |
| Preparation of Proposals for Qualitative Research |
| Different Assumptions, Familiar Problems, and New Responses |
| Style and Form in Writing the Proposal |
| Money for Research |
| How to Ask for Help |
| Preparing the Grant Proposal |
| Part 2 Specimen Proposals |
| Experimental Design - The Effects of Age, Modality and Complexity of Response, and Practice on Reaction Time |
| Qualitative Study - Returning Women Students in the Community College |
| Quasi-Experimental Design - Teaching Children to Question What They Read |
| An Attempt to Improve Reading Comprehension Through Training in a Cognitive Learning Strategy |
| Funded Grant - A Field Test of a Health-Based Educational Intervention to Increase Adolescent Fertility Control |
