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re familiar with the field, and that your idea is new. Now, why should your project be worth researching? Because it advances knowledge, ok. But is this kno wledge that anybody will need? Maybe nobody knows for sure how the shoel aces were being tied in the XIXth century, but who cares, beyond two lac etying specialists? Find arguments to convince the reader that s/he sho uld give you money for that research: practical use, accelerating the de velopment of knowledge in your or other fields, opening new research pos sibilities, a better understanding of facts that will allow a more appro priate course of action are possible reasons. Be clear and specific. Don ’t promise to save the world, it might be too much to start with. Even J ames Bond succeeds that only towards the end of the movie. We approach now one of the most difficult parts of writing a research pr oposal: the methodology. In short, what actions are you going to take in order to answer the question? When will you know whether the hypothesis has been proven wrong, or has survived enough tests to be considered, f or now, valid? Those tests and the way you are supposed to handle them t o give rigor to your research is what is understood under methods. Metho ds divide in qualitative (interviews, questionnaires) and quantitative ( statistics, stuff that deals intensively with numbers). For some project s qualitative methods are more appropriate, for some quantitative, while for most a mixture of the two is adequate. You should pick your methods and justify your choice. Research methodology, however, is too a pli cated thing to be explained here. And this is why it’s so tough: not muc h attention is given to teaching it in Eastern Europe. Try, before writi ng your RP, to read a bit more about methodology on the Internet you w ill find for sure some articles and decide which methods suit your pro ject best. Don’t forget: reading theoretical pieces of your work and pro viding a critical analysis of those is also a kind of research. It’s fin e to provide a rough schedule of your research。 專題組的分工必須要分得明確合理,爭取讓每個人了解自己的工作和責任,不能吃 大鍋飯,但是在分工的基礎