There is a lot of information on writing a research proposal, and this article just wants to make a short summary of all those tips that you might have heard before.
 
I hope you understand that your research proposals is one of the first steps to writing a big project, but this is one of the most important stages. Weak and unclear research proposal will complicate your work significantly and even may lead to failure of the assignment. Thus, you need to remember some basic aspects of writing a research proposal.
 
First, you should know the answers to three main questions about writing a research proposal:

1. What are you going to do?
2. How are you going to do it?
3. What results are you expecting to get?

Clear and reasonable answers to these questions mean you know for sure the purpose and the outcomes of your work. What is more, these questions show that research you are going to make is feasible.

• Another important aspect of writing a research proposal is that it shows you the scope of your work. In other words, you have a possibility to understand whether your project is too big or too small; whether you have enough materials to disclose your topic properly.
• Finally, a research proposal is the first thing that will make an impression on the members of the committee. With your research proposal you can show yourself as a knowledgeable and a perspective young scholar, or a person who does not know what he/she is doing and what he/she wants to achieve.

Take into consideration that a research proposal will be helpful not only while writing a kind of a scientific work. Once you decide to get a grant or something like that for making further research, the most important thing for you will be a correct and a clear research proposal.