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pay attention in your analys is to those you will build on. Another one: avoid jargon when writing yo ur RP. The chances are great that the person(s) who will read your and a nother 1000 research proposals are not specialists in that very field niche you are examining. If you are applying for a grant with or foundat ion or something similar, it might happen that those reading your paper are not even professors, but recruiters, donors, etc. And even if they a ctually are professors, one of the reasons busy people like them agree t o undertake a huge, and sometimes voluntary, work, is the desire to meet some diversity, some change from their work so maybe they’ll read app lications for another specialisation. The capacity to get your message a cross in clear, easytograsp concepts and phrases is one of the winning papers’ most important advantages. So far, you have proven you have a research idea, that you are 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 i