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Discuss your prior knowledge of proposals. (Remember: the goal of a proposal is to inspire change, to solve a problem, or address an issue). Answer: Have you ever had to write one? Answer: Do you read them in your profession? Note: If you have never written or read a proposal, locate one online and discuss the merits/drawbacks based on what you have learned.
Being a student of economics, postgrad, we have had the fortune to read a fair amount of papers, economics in general. And, I have had written quite a few proposals for my term papers and research conferences which have paper presentation competition.
So, a proposal, to begin with gives an overview of the idea or the question that is troubling you. It can be a brief intro about that. Then after that you move on to the literature review where you cite the works by published authors who have worked in the same field as your question. You tend to give them proper citation.
At this stage you need to mention how your study is different from other studies.
After that we have to show our data sources. What are our variables and how they interact.
This is followed by a conclusion. This is how you write a general proposal.
Yes I read them in my profession, my last proposal was on effect of eflectricity on higher education.