Speak clearly in your Methodology

In the previous articles introducing about a research proposal and why you need one, it was mentioned that Methodology section is one of the most important section of a research proposal and thus has to be written clearly.What is meant by 'written celarly'?

Remember that the Methodology section is basically describes what material you will use in your research and how you will conduct the research. These have to be, again, clearly written so that everyone reading your research proposal (and research report after completing the research) will be able to follow exactly what you have done in the research. In a more scientific term, the methodology has to be reproducible. This is a must in scientific community that we have to tell genuinely everything we do in our research to our readers once the research results enter the publication. This genuine attitude has to be started during the writing of a research proposal.

A research proposal with a detailed methodology will have a higher scientific level than the one written with unclear methodology. People reading your research proposal (including the one assessing your research proposal for scholarship application) will expect this in your proposal. Unclearly written methodology will eventually downgrade the academic quality of a research proposal. Detailed and clear written methodology is especially the case for specific processes and actions that you perform particularly in your research. There are times, however, that a specific method is very well known in a particular research topic and you may just need to mention the method name and give reference to it. In this case, do not forget to include that reference in your list of reference.

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