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Research Proposal Checklist

Ten sections of checks, from your title and research gap to ethics and timeline.

The A–Z pass: every chapter, plus title page, abstract, references and appendix.

Whether your context, aims and scope actually set up the chapters that follow.

Coverage, critical synthesis, and whether your research gap is visible to a reader.

Whether your paradigm, design and methods fit together — and are defended.

Presentation, visuals, and the line between reporting results and interpreting them.

Interpretation against the literature, limitations, and the return to your research gap.

Whether you answered the question you asked, and what you claim follows from it.