Research Proposal Guidelines

Ray Ontko
Department of Computer Science
Earlham College

Research Proposal Guidelines established in class, 1997/09/05.

• What would be a good title for the topic?
• Why study it?
• What key ideas/concepts are needed to comprehend the proposal?
• What do I hope to accomlish? What am I out for?
• How does what I'm doing build on what has already been done?
• How to go about research: what resources? where to look?
• What are some related (but distinct) areas of research?