Has anyone ever been criticized with the above? Your research proposal is not 'Sciencey' enough? I'm doing Computing and I just heard that my research is not Computing Sciencey enough.
I think that's the most ridiculous thing that I could ever heard. What defines something to be 'Sciencey'? Or "Engineery" lol
Could someone help me understand?
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Disclaimer: Massive over-simpliication coming... but arguably science is the process of doing research, but engineering is about building things. So, if you're proposal isn't sciencey enough it might be because you are proposing to implement/design a system that is a solution to a problem, rather than researching what the problem is?
Science requires theories based on literature, hypotheses, experimentation, results followed by analysis. Are you proposing to do this? Or are you just proposing to implement a system? If so, one way to make it more scientific is to establish how you are going to evaluate the system and establish if it meets a set of criteria?
It's a bit vague isn't it? Without the details of the proposal though it is pretty much impossible to tell you what the problem is. Not that I'm saying you should post them on a public forum, just saying that I doubt you'll get a decent answer. Could you not ask your supervisor for something a bit more specific?
Often the problem with proposals can be a lack of a clearly defined research question. Do you have a well defined problem you're trying to solve or a clear hypothesis you're trying to test? There should be a clear question/problem that can be summed up in a couple of sentences, from which the rest of the proposal will flow.
But as others have said it's difficult to give more specific advice as the details you've given are quite vague.
I think it might be worth going back to your supervisors and asking for clarification as it sounds like you've been given some very vague feedback! Can you arrange to meet face to face/on the telephone and go over the proposal page by page?
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