- Overall approach
- What approaches are there?
- How does the approach fit the research design?
- Methods of data collection
- Methods of analysis and interpretation
- What data will be collected and how?
- Qualitative or quantitative, or mixture or both
- Triangulation of results
- Techniques: questionnaires, interviews; support both with academic reasoning
- Weaknesses with planned approach – how to overcome them
- Demonstrate one knows what one is doing and why