How to write your
project topic
CHAPTER ONE
Background to the study
• This refers to the genesis or the beginning of the
research .
• Here you are interested in the main problem that
led to the research
• Maybe you read something that inspired the
research
• This should not take more than two pages.
Objectives
• Here you are going to interpret or explain what the
problem is.
Research questions
• Think of the possible questions that someone who
wants to embark on this project will ask
• Research questions can vary from 2 - 6 questions
but it is best to keep it at 3 questions.
Statement of problem
• This helps you to structure your research questions
• To identify the problem you are trying to solve, look
at your project topic and look at the dependent
variable, compare it to the independent variable
and see why your dependent variable is depending
on your independent variable .
Objective of the study
• This is simply paraphrasing your research
questions .
Significance of the study
• This speaks of importance; How important is your
research to the society or your department.
CHAPTER TWO
• This is simply researching deeper into the main
concepts that are part of the project.
• It is important that you don't copy your research
directly from Google Scholar, try to paraphrase
most of what you researched in your own words.
CHAPTER THREE
Research Methodology
• Here, you describe whatever method you used to
get data
• There are two ways that you can get data for your
research
- primary: getting information through interaction
with people directly or indirectly e.g questionnaires,
interviews, online surveys
- secondary : This involves the use of publications,
articles, newspapers, TV shows etc
Research design
• This is where you state how you calculated your
data to land on a conclusion.
• If you are using primary data, you have to mention
the people that you interviewed or the
questionnaire that you did
• If you used secondary data, you'll have to mention
the type of secondary data that you used and
explain your sampling techniques
• If you are using primary data, then you need a
sampling technique
• However, if you made use of secondary data, then
you don't need a sampling technique
• Sampling technique refers to the amount of people
you need to interview or reach in order to conclude
• Also, specify your sample size if you used primary
data
Data instruments
• These are instruments that you used to collect your
data
Questionaire allocation
• This shows how you shared or distributed your
questionaire. Note that this is only applicable if you
used primary data .
Testing the validity and reliability of your data
instrument
• This should explain how you were able to get
feedback from your questionaire or people you
interviewed and also how valid those data that you
were able to accumulate are
Method of data analysis
• Here, you mention how you calculated your data to
arrive at your conclusion
• This also shows how you analysed your data that
you have collected
CHAPTER FOUR
• This is your data presentation, interpretation and
analysis
• Here, you analyse everything that you've gotten
from your data and how you arrive at a conclusion
• Here is what is expected of you
- Introduction : summary of previous chapters
- analysis of all the data containing your interviews
and questionaire
- discuss your data findings and how it relates to
your research questions
• This is the summary of all the whole mathematical
equation in words
• Go back to your research questions and analyse
how your findings or data relates to your research
questions
CHAPTER FIVE
• State your research questions again
• Summarise what you've done from chapter 1-4
• Summarise each research question and what you
feel should be done. This is your recommendations.
• There should be space for appendix and references
at the end.
THE END.
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