Research work · 2021
Envisioning and Writing a Thesis Proposal
Oceanography
Abstract
Envisioning and writing a thesis proposal is one of the most difficult things a student does in graduate school. Students typically have no experience in writing proposals—or even in conceiving of thesis-sized research programs. Nor should they—they are doing graduate work to develop these skills. Often a student is left to write a thesis proposal with almost no guidance about the purpose of the proposal, its content and organizational structure, or how it will be judged.