In the Methodology part:
• Describe how you can answer the research question. Explain your plan of action that you can pursue, bearing in mind the time and cost. You need to consider whether your plan is doable and feasible.
• Explain the conceptualization and operationalization process. Explain specific terms and concepts you use in your research.
• Describe the research hypotheses you will test.
• Describe the measurement procedure and make clear how you will measure research variables. Describe independent and dependent variables and their operational definitions (Include a diagram/figure that shows how the variables are related to each other).
• Describe the type of data you will use for this study (e.g., Large-n survey data, secondary data, etc.) and explain how you will access/collect data to answer your research question. Are you going to collect your own data or use a secondary source, or both?
• If you use secondary data or official data, specify the sources of data with brief information and explain how you will access the data.
• If you are planning to conduct a survey, provide the survey questions necessary to test your research question and hypotheses.
• Describe the population, unit of analysis, and sampling methodology. Give the number of observations, if possible.
In Discussion part:
• Discuss your expected results? (You are not supposed to run any data analysis at this stage). What kind of results would confirm your hypothesis?
• Discuss possible threats to internal and external validity of your proposed research.
• Discuss, in general, how your proposed research and findings would lead to a significant improvement over the original studies, and/or how it would benefit the field. (In other words, why should someone care?
