Abstract
Table of Contents
1. Introduction (Terms of Reference) What the research project is to achieve?
• Research Rationale (Statement of Problem),
What is the underlying rationale and aim of your research? What in your experience prompted it? Why are you doing it?
• Objectives (Purpose of Research) What is the study trying to achieve (i.e. is your purpose to explore, describe, understand, explain, predict, change, or something else)?
• Research question (or propositions or hypotheses)
What is your research question(s)? or proposition(s)?
2 Critical Literature Review
(Indication of the literature that informs your research)
• Theoretical/conceptual frameworks (Role of theory)
3. Methodology and methods
4. Discussion
5. References & Bibliography