Shaping your Study and your Proposal
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Shaping your Study and your Proposal - Writing Research Proposals in Applied Linguistics |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | A. Riazi; Macquarie University; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Linguistics |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | research proposals; academic writing; proposal writing; academic literature; research process; research paradigms; literature review; research ethics; grant application; award application |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Academic Writing; Applied Linguistics |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | • Principles of choosing your research approach and methodology o What does your methodology involve? o What assumptions does it make theoretically and practically? o How do you relate to your chosen methodology? o How does your chosen methodology relate to your research purposes and data? o How contextualised is your methodology in terms of people, time and space? o How methodical is your methodology? How coherent is it? • Sampling procedures: which informants and participants to choose o Questions of where and when (access, convenience, suitability, etc.) o Questions of who (availability, demographics, specific characteristics, etc.) o Questions of numbers (experimental studies, surveys, case studies) o Thinking of ethical issues. How might the research study affect participants? How should issues such as consent and confidentiality be addressed? • Selecting and warranting the appropriate tools of data collection o What are potential data collection tools for quantitatively-oriented research o What are potential data collection tools for qualitatively-oriented research o What are potential data collection tools for mixed-methods research • Getting engaged with the data and selecting the appropriate procedures of data analysis o Choosing appropriate quantitative data analysis procedures o Choosing appropriate qualitative data analysis procedures Reflective Tasks |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Nov-2025 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/33185 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.33185 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Writing Research Proposals in Applied Linguistics |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |