Writing my research proposal

[D Arcand]

So I have a silly question since I've never written a research proposal before. My potential supervisor is asking me to place my research into the field and to outline my methodology. Does anyone know what exactly this means?

[Bronte1985]

6 hours ago, D Arcand said:

So I have a silly question since I've never written a research proposal before. My potential supervisor is asking me to place my research into the field and to outline my methodology. Does anyone know what exactly this means?

What broader concerns/questions in your field does your project intersect with? What are the main scholarly landmarks around those concerns and in what ways in your project in dialogue with them? How does your project contribute to the scholarly conversation by shedding light on an area not addressed by other scholars? And finally how are you going to go about carrying out your project--what theoretical models will you draw on, what evidence will you use, how will you use it?