Writing Doctoral Project Proposals: Higher Education Research. First edition

by Paul R. Trowler

This is the first edition of this book. It is designed to be as helpful as possible for anyone who needs to write a doctoral research proposal in the area of higher education research.

It is deliberately concise, while still being comprehensive and useful. Its audience is prospective doctoral students who have to write a project proposal which will be assessed for admission and perhaps for a scholarship to do their doctoral research, as well as those who have already been admitted to university but now need to have a full proposal approved.

For readability, terms which may need a fuller explanation are linked from the text to a glossary at the end of the book. Terms in the text that are described in the glossary are printed in bold.

The second edition adds new material and offers examples of proposals for doctoral research projects together with a commentary on them suggesting improvements. The aim is to help the reader develop an ‘eye’ for a persuasive argument and a good feel for a well-integrated proposal.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 7, 2012