What is methodology and abstract? ?

Question

I. title [purple cone flower]

II. Abstract

III. Introduction

a. Statement of the problem

b. Objective

c. Significance of the study

IV. Review of related literature

V. Methodology

VI. Reference

my professor gave this requirements for my research proposal.

and i dont have any idea about the abstract thing, and the methodology

can you help me?

godbless!..

thank you :)

Answer 1

An abstract of a paper is a brief description of the contents of the paper.  It generally contains a very brief statement of the problem (no huge details), maybe an extremely notable fact or two, why your paper is 'good.'  By reading your abstract, someone should be able to quickly grasp what the general content of your paper is.  It should be no longer than a few short paragraphs (maybe 400 words tops?).

Keep in mind that most people who come across a given paper are only going to read the abstract (obviously if it's just a research proposal for one professor, that doesn't matter as much).

Methodology in a research proposal should be a very verbose description of the techniques you're going to use to try to answer your problem.  For instance, if you're doing a chemistry proposal and you're trying to identify some element in some compound, you may list the different tests you'd use, and then go into a fair bit of detail as to how these tests operate, how they differ, what you expect to find from what test, etc.

By reading your methodology section, someone without much background knowledge of the specific problem should be able to understand exactly what you're going to be doing.  If you can't describe what you're going to be doing, you either don't have a good idea of what you're doing, or it's too complex to get research funding.