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Notes and Slides

plan

1. Opinionated Introduction

2. Exercise: Evaluating Fake Proposals

3. Exercise: Your Proposal

Who are you writing for?

Potential Supervisors

Director of Graduate Studies

Interview Panels and Funding Committees

not: you

What goes into it?

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What is the question you want to answer?

What is the answer you anticipate defending?

Why would establishing this be a significant discovery?

Anything else? [e.g., methods, sources]

The Abstract

Sentences 1-2: Background

Sentences 3-4: Objectives = quetion + thesis

Sentences 5-6: Argumentative Strategy + Key Source

Sentences 7-8: Conclusions

Example Abstracts

The Proposal

Structure: same as the abstract.

Demonstrate knowledge.

Say why this department and supervisor.

Ensure consistency.

Anything else? [e.g., clarity about sources]

Immediate Disqualifiers

Unclear question or thesis

Lacks a single, coherent line of enquiry

Any sign of poor scholarship

Reference list errors

Any poofrreading lapse

Smells like AI

potential supervisors

quality, fit my interests + expertise, feasibility

director of graduate studies

quality, >1 potential supervisor

interview panels and funding committees

quality, fit programme, feasibility, significance

plan

1. Opinionated Introduction

2. Exercise: Evaluating Fake Proposals

3. Exercise: Your Proposal

fake proposals

plan

1. Opinionated Introduction

2. Exercise: Evaluating Fake Proposals

3. Exercise: Your Proposal

Abstract Template