What needs to go into a Dissertation proposal?

[FairLadyRantALot]

Well...E-mailed my Tutor about me having found my Dissertation topic and wanting to get sooner rather than later (yes, only first year...but will give me time to do all the reading, etc....)...but not heard anyhting back...and one of the things I need to know, obviously, is what needs to be included in the Dissertation proposal?
Anyone got any hinters?

I don't know what subject yours is in, but mine in Education had to include my aims, my methodology, the ethics form, a timescale of my work, the proposed question and how I planned to answer it, key literature I had read and details of my research site.

thanks jeffa....mine is in Occupational Therapy and will be a literature review....
but thanks for your hints, that is really helpful

I am writing a dissertation proposal atm, and not really enjoying it! We have been given sub headings...but it is not very clear. Like for the sub heading 'abstract'...do we actually write an abstract, AND horror, I just thought, omg, what if they are asking us to write an abstract for the proposal??? ARGH....no, surely not...
I have these kind of confused thoughts for ever sub heading...hmmm, this is not going well!

The abstract is just the bit to tell other people what you haven written about, without them having to read your whole study.

Yeah but am I writing an abstract for the proposal, or for the dissertation!? OR describing what I intend to say in the sbastract for the dissertation! confused

But all will be well, I shall research it and it will be fabulous stays positive.

Oh, and coming back to the original post... sorry

FairLadyRantALot- A literature review will mean talking about all the relevant texts you have found, and how they support (or otherwise) what you are writing about. I have a literature review as one of the sub-headings for my proposal, but as I have to fit in many other things, then we just need to do a kind of 'such and such et al' etc said this, whearas 'suchabody' takes the perspective of.... just more brief overview really, than the scale of the review in the diss. The literature review is one part I am not so worried about having spoken about it with the phd guy that ran our dissertation workshops, and already having a rather fab list of relevant literature. (reading it is another matter though!)

so, you doing part of your dissertation as a lit review and some own research, sense...?

By the way I would be intersted in the answer to your question, too....i.e. aBSTRACT OF PROPOSAL OR about the abstract of your dissertation...so...will keep my eye on this...

I have changed my name here, but was SENSEofTOUCH!

Yeah, my dissertation is research but the literature review makes up a large part of that anyway. Some of the previous year's dissertations that I have read just intergrate that in the text, and others have a seperate lit review chapter of about a quarter of the length of the total dissertation.

interesting....I don't think I will be able to conduct my own rsearch...although...might be worth finding out about it...

I handed my dissertation in today!!

It was covered in blood, sweat and tears.

SO RELIEVED.

oh, how exciting Quantitative Let us know how when you get teh results

OMG Quantitative how eciting!

Manatee - I am stalking you from another thread and now want to know what your dissertation is about... if you will tell even vaguely.
My dh wrote his in the garden shed so it was covered in grass cuttings and tea.

Ha, Wilderduck... I am doing a degree in Human Geography which is cool because human geography is everything. (Unfortunately that does not stop the narrow minded ones doing stuff like 'geographies of potato farming'.

But I am not yet totally focused on what angle I will be taking, but it will be on communities formed on pro-anorexia forums, and maybe also pro-obesity forums.

V interesting Manatee. Thanks for telling me. So many teenagers prey to this.
Good luck reading you elsewhere too.

I am looking at them positively, I have reason to suggest the media creation of 'dangerous places' is a myth. (and the name PRO annorexia is a also a media creation!) Some of them can be dodgy, but it is the community formed, the support and understanding, that is not available irl, that I am looking at.

Also I am interested in the way in which an eating disorder is in part an attempt to seperate mind and body, and how the internet in itself can support this feeling of a seperate mind and body.

I am doing an ethnographic study.

This really is v interesting. My dc has friends who are experiencing similar.
Sorry, I've taken you off the subject of this thread so don't want to quiz you!
Good luck with that abstract.

Manatee, that sounds really interesting....wow....good luck with that....sounds like work that possibly will be published

Fairlady, that is a very nice thing to say, but looking at the hopeless muddle of a proposal I am not feeling very confident!

On the subject of the abstract; I just googled 'dissertation proposal'. I got loads of those scary sites that offer to almost do your diss for you at a fee! But one of them (cannot remember which now...oops) had some examples of proposals. The abstract section seemed to be like an abstract would be for the diss, but shorter and instead of just saying the point, saying 'In my dissertation I will' before each point. I don't feel like I am explaining well at all, but the general idea is that it is neither just the abstract (and I am starting to think maybe abstracts are better written after the dissertation is written?) or a 'what the abstract will be', but a sort of cross between the two.

I have my dissertation proposal stuff from a lecture- it tells you what to put into it.

Would you like me to email it to you?

oh, please that would be fabulous....and give me a good idea
my E-mail is
realjolie @ yahoo . de

(obviously without the spaces

sent x

thank you Really helpful!!!!!!!!!!!

Quantitative, I don't suppose you would be so kind as to email that to me, I would hugely appreciate ANy dissertation proposal help atm.

I f you could that would be so fab, my email is alanis _ rose 18 @ yahoo. co. uk

Hi Mannatee- have emailed you