1. Choose a topic related to your course of studies or your profession.
2. Narrow the scope of the topic. State how you have narrowed the topic.
3. Find some area in the topic that needs to be investigated. This is the problem. This is what you are attempting to discover.
4. State the problem and what you are attempting to find out in the form of a research question. The research question should be well focused and clearly stated. State also some subsidiary questions related to the major research question.
5. Write a very condensed proposal of the process you will go through to answer the research question. Include also a tentative bibliography.
This should be about 8 to 14 pages.





