Proposal Part 6 - Justification of Study

My assignment says:  "Theoretical and practical justifications of topic suitability for research (around one page)."  I'm a little foggy today; I need more than that to figure out what to write.  I found this article "How to write a research proposal" that has a good explanation, IMHO.

Scrolling down to the section entitled, "Objective of the research project," I find:

Give a concise and clear outline of the academic (possibly also non-academic, e.g. social and political) objectives that you want to achieve through your project. Your proposal needs to show why the intended research is important and justifies the search effort. Here you outline the significance (theoretical or practical) or relevance of the topic.

Such justification may either be of an empirical nature (you hope to add to, or extend an existing body of knowledge) or of a theoretical nature (you hope to elucidate contentious areas in a body of knowledge or to provide new conceptual insights into such knowledge). All research is part of a larger scholarly enterprise and candidates should be able to argue for the value and positioning of their work.

That explains it nicely.  I'll have to remember this article...it has a lot of other good stuff in it.