Team Project Proposal

This assignment was created primarily to give you practice writing a proposal as a team and to generate ideas for DPS dissertations. In fact, you might even try to influence your team to write about something you are interested in that could be modified later into your dissertation proposal. A secondary motivation was to give me ideas for actual funding proposals.

The team project proposal is just for practice writing a grant proposal and, since you don't actually send it to the agency, you will not get funded. However, a serious proposal is a possibility.

The team project proposal must be more substantial than a DPS Dissertation Idea Paper but need not be as complete or as detailed as the DPS Dissertation Proposal. However, per the DPS Dissertation Guide under Dissertation Proposal, it should contain the following:

Title
Abstract
Chapter 1. Introduction
- Statement of the problem to be investigated and goal to be achieved
- Relevance, significance or need for the work
- Elements, hypotheses, theories, or research questions to be investigated
- Limitations and delimitation of the study
- Definition of terms
Chapter 2. Relevance of the research in the context of other work
- Historical overview of the theory and research literature
- The theory and research literature specific to the topic
- Summary of what is known and unknown about the topic
- The contribution this study will make to the field
Chapter 3. Methodology
- Research method(s) to be employed
- Specific procedures to be employed
- Formats for presenting results
- Projected outcomes
- Resource requirements
- Reliability and validity
Chapter 4. Discussion of Expectations
- Anticipated benefits
- Projected outcomes
- Practical applications of the findings
- Constraints and limitations of the study
- Recommendations for additional studies
- Contributions to the field of study and advancement of knowledge

You can find examples of requests for proposals as well as some university proposals on the internet. And here's a proposal that we at Pace put together with RPI a few years ago: Summary Description References.