What is a thesis proposal?
A thesis proposal is a document that provides the necessary background to your question, clearly identifies the question being asked or the hypothesis being tested, provides the methodology you will use to answer that question, and notes what the expected results might be and what these results mean placed in the context of what is known. An annotated bibliography of 5 or 6 key references is needed, as is an appendix if you have human or animal studies approval, graphs, figures or charts of preliminary data, or rubrics which you will use for analysis, and questionnaires or interview questions you will use. Annotating a bibliography means preparing a short commentary on each reference you use in the proposal.
