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## Research Plan ### List of Steps in Writing a Research paper 1. Identify the problem 2. Formulation of hypothesis 3. Review of literature 4. Planning of research design and procedure 5. Experimentation 6. Data gathering, organization, processing, analysis and interpretation 7. Formulation of conc...

## Research Plan ### List of Steps in Writing a Research paper 1. Identify the problem 2. Formulation of hypothesis 3. Review of literature 4. Planning of research design and procedure 5. Experimentation 6. Data gathering, organization, processing, analysis and interpretation 7. Formulation of conclusion ### Questions to be addressed when creating a Research Plan * What do you intend to do? * Why is the work important? * What has already been done? * How are you going to do the work? ### Essential Parts in Research Plan 1. Rationale 2. Research Question 3. Hypothesis 4. Engineering goals 5. Expected outputs 6. Procedure 7. Risk and Safety 8. Data analysis 9. Bibliography ### Research Question * It is a professional enquiry into a particular issue or concern * It is the first step toward your research project * First active phase in the research process * It looks like the aim or goal of your research, but in a question form ### Research Plan * This describes the principal investigator's proposed research * Research plan gives the principal investigator the opportunity to discuss proposed research, stating its importance and how it will be conducted ### Rationale * This includes a brief context synopsis that supports your research problem and explain why this research is relevant * Synopsis = summary * It also explains any societal effect of your research where applicable ### Hypothesis * Write the educated guess for your study * Null hypothesis and Alternative hypothesis * Null hypothesis refers to the statement suggesting the absence of statistical significance * Alternative hypothesis is the proposed theory or postulation in a hypothesis test