Ten Parts of the Proposal

Since I put the proposal work away for two and a half months to finish up coursework, I'm finding that I have to go back to review the process I started in December.  Dr. S (the dissertation guide and gatekeeper) will assign an advising prof to me after the proposal is in.  In the meantime, I've got to submit ten items in the proposal.  Here they are:

1. Title of the Study
2. Purpose of the Study
3. Research Problems
4. Research Objectives/Hypotheses Related to Research Problems
5. Overview of Literature
6. Justification of Study
7. Method and Sample
8. Limitations of the Study
9. Operational Definitions of Key Terms
10. References

I've already written about some of these, but I'll probably take them one blog post at a time as I work through them.  As of this writing, I'm through Parts 1 through 4, but they sort of evolve as I get through the literature.