My experience with writing a topic proposal was quite interesting. That is because at the beginning I had no idea what it is. Thus, my first draft had nothing to do with the assignment. I wrote a kind of research paper, asking and answering questions I raised, which were imperfect as well though.
Another problem I had with it is language. I did not know whether it must be very formal or just like typical essay. I wanted it to be formal and used a lot of academic sources. However, the completed paper did not look appropriate, it seemed to be full of plagiarisms.
I figured out what the real topic proposal must look like only after another workshop. So, my final draft was absolutely different. It had more proper questions, and I did not answer them. I realized that all I needed to do is just raise questions supported with some ideas from different sources. That actually was much easier because I could use my own language and I did not have to be very academic and formal.
In conclusion, I can say that writing a topic proposal is quite fun. All you need to do is just keep asking different questions and not thinking about whether you know their answers or not. The only things you have to remember about are the adequacy and importance of the questions.
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