Sometimes students write the Chapter 3 of their research proposal in the past tense instead of the future tense in order to save time later on, especially when they are pressed for time. How do you view this practice?
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Debra
Chapter 3 is the Methodology chapter.
When you are writing your proposal, describing the methodology you will use in the future after your proposal is approved, write in the future "will be" tense.
When you have already performed your research and analysis and are writing your final thesis, change all of the references to past tense, because you are reporting things that happened in the past.
Could you please elaborate 'Chapter 3'? What does it contain? There may be different formats of research proposals.
Chapter 3 is the Methodology chapter.
When you are writing your proposal, describing the methodology you will use in the future after your proposal is approved, write in the future "will be" tense.
When you have already performed your research and analysis and are writing your final thesis, change all of the references to past tense, because you are reporting things that happened in the past.
It is a bad practice. Students need to learn how to convert tenses. More importantly, this process forces them to check that the goods that they promised to deliver in the Proposal, have in fact been delivered in the Research.
Furthermore, it is likely that the Methods will have been improved, and this has to be reported upon.
Finally, check for students plagiarising theses to form their "own" proposals!
Proposal should never be written in past tense rather what would be done should be reflected which means the language should be in future tense.
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A proposal is about what you are going to research on in future. It should therefore be in the future tense. Once approved and the research undertaken then the "Methodology" changes to past tense
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