Statement of the problem

ANOTHER EDITION

What is this?

And this?

Proposal

Your proposal describes your proposed plan of work:

What you intend to study (scope and research questions).How you intend to study your topic (methodology).Why this topic needs to be studied (significance).When you will complete this work (timeline).(Occasionally) Where you will conduct this work

FOCUS ON FORM

Is this written academically? (use of verbs and transitional phrases)

Is there any interference of the mother tongue? (Word

by word translation)

Is there any sentence or structure difficult to

understand?

Any example of ambiguity? (Women like chocolate

more than men)

Does the structure of the text move from wider to

narrow perspectives of the topic?

TO REFLECT

Have I put forth an argument as to why this problem is worthy of investigation?

Have I summarized the existing state

opinion and research on the problem?

Have I surveyed and described relevant

studies to the problem?

FOCUS ON CONTENT

Which are the main arguments for the execution of the project? (relevant, connected, up to date)

Are the research questions related to what

this section states? Show the relationships.

What is the role of English in your SOP?

FOCUS ON CONTENT

Does your SOP include what should be done in the field of study?

Does your SOP include what is really happening in

the field under study?

Does your SOP limit the scope of your research?

Are the variables connected?

Does it show the gap in research?

FOCUS ON FORM

Is this written academically? (use of verbs and transitional phrases)

Is there any interference of the mother tongue? (Word

by word translation)

Is there any sentence or structure difficult to

understand?

Any example of ambiguity? (Women like chocolate

more than men)

Does the structure of the text move from wider to

narrow perspectives of the topic?