Concept Paper Help
WRITING A RESEARCH CONCEPT PAPER
An interactive continuous professional development course
instructions
• This is an interactive tutorial by the end of which you should have a basic research concept paper • This can work in a team or individually team work and group discussions are best. • Have a plain sheet of paper, pen and open mind • Write as instructed in this tutorial on this separate piece of paper that you have prepared as shown in the next slide
Idea
Why this idea
Question
Plan to discover
What needs to be done
Question (general idea)
• For example • Idea: all fish from lake Victoria are poisoned: • Question “is fish from lake Victoria safe?” On your paper: • State your idea (12 words) • Write you idea above as a question.
Why this idea?
• Why is your idea important? • In our example on fish I am concerned about sources of animal protein, smuggling, pollution, and over fishing On your paper: • Write give two reasons explaining why your idea is important? (use what you know now!)
What do you plan to discover
• Here we capture a few ideas/questions we have in mind as a plan to answer our question. In our example I could say
– Where do the fishing communities around lake Victoria get their fish from? [we need to determine the sources of fish for the fishing communities around lake Victoria]
…ideas/questions …
– How do these communities obtain their fish? [to describe the methods used to obtain fish by the fishing communities around lake Victoria]
– Does the lake have any safe fish? [to determine the quality of fish caught by fishermen from lake Victoria] Note the format; question? Then [what you plan to do]. Now make a similar scheme for your idea. Maximum three (3)!
What needs to be done
• Next we look at what needs to be done. In our example above looking through the plan we have to do:
– A questionnaire based survey of the fishing communities will help determine where and how they get their fish. – I may
An interactive continuous professional development course
instructions
• This is an interactive tutorial by the end of which you should have a basic research concept paper • This can work in a team or individually team work and group discussions are best. • Have a plain sheet of paper, pen and open mind • Write as instructed in this tutorial on this separate piece of paper that you have prepared as shown in the next slide
Idea
Why this idea
Question
Plan to discover
What needs to be done
Question (general idea)
• For example • Idea: all fish from lake Victoria are poisoned: • Question “is fish from lake Victoria safe?” On your paper: • State your idea (12 words) • Write you idea above as a question.
Why this idea?
• Why is your idea important? • In our example on fish I am concerned about sources of animal protein, smuggling, pollution, and over fishing On your paper: • Write give two reasons explaining why your idea is important? (use what you know now!)
What do you plan to discover
• Here we capture a few ideas/questions we have in mind as a plan to answer our question. In our example I could say
– Where do the fishing communities around lake Victoria get their fish from? [we need to determine the sources of fish for the fishing communities around lake Victoria]
…ideas/questions …
– How do these communities obtain their fish? [to describe the methods used to obtain fish by the fishing communities around lake Victoria]
– Does the lake have any safe fish? [to determine the quality of fish caught by fishermen from lake Victoria] Note the format; question? Then [what you plan to do]. Now make a similar scheme for your idea. Maximum three (3)!
What needs to be done
• Next we look at what needs to be done. In our example above looking through the plan we have to do:
– A questionnaire based survey of the fishing communities will help determine where and how they get their fish. – I may