Preparing a research proposal for a student research dissertation: a pedagogic note

Clive Emmanuel and Rob Gray

Accounting Education, 2003, vol. 12, issue 3, 303-312

Abstract: When students are required to engage in research of one kind or another and to produce dissertations - whether as a substantial component of a research degree or as a lesser component in a taught degree - the research proposal is a crucial pedagogic mechanism. But whilst textbooks give guidance on the preparation of such a proposal they rarely provide an illustration of what a proposal might look like. This short note attempts to overcome this lack. It provides a fictitious proposal of a fictitious project in a form that may well be required of accounting and finance students. The note also provides some discussion about the process of construction of the proposal and then undertakes a brief auto-critique of the proposal itself. The note is intended, principally, to be used with students to help them in the construction of their own research proposals.

Date: 2003
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