For my first group meeting with my supervisor Dr. Henry Fortuna and fellow students Dave and Drew, we were asked to prepare an outline of our project proposal.

Here’s my initial outline, which I am expanding on for our next meeting and will redraft into a complete proposal over Christmas.

We discussed a number of points, most of them common to each of our proposals. As well as this, Dr Ozveren gave further advice during his lecture on Thursday which will be addressed in my redraft.

• In terms of structure, “Motivation” deals with too many points and could become condescending to someone who is familiar with the topic. Splitting the proposal to deal with literature review under its own subheading will help to address this and to emphasise the research work which has taken place.
• The basic outline did not make it clear which points were taken or referencing literature and which were my own, obviously this is vital in the final proposal and as such should be demonstrated in the redraft.
• The section “Addressing the Question” might be better separated into “Issues”, “Methodology” and “Evaluation”
• The proposal should also include objectives and milestones, and optionally constraints, assumptions and risks.