Dissertation: Problem Purpose Statement Lecture notes

Problem Purpose Statement

• A4 document

Research documents are essentially…

Step 1: “What is the problem?”

• Mind Map (1-2 sentences)

Step 2: Knowledge gap

• all information that is available (Literature review) something your topic will address that is not in any literature!
• “What are we going to learn that is new?”

Step 3: Context

• Time
• Place
• People
• Involved in dissertation
• Time period- e.g Modern day
• Place- UK/ America/ etc
• People- Men/ Women/ Animators/ etc

Step 4: Conceptual Framework

• Leave this out (N/A)

Step 5: Evidence/ Logic

• Important enough to do research
• Provide evidence to support why this problem needs to be researched

Data used: Primary or Secondary