Ali
Good point(s) ...
We taught "research methods" from year 1 through to the final 4th year
(BTech = honours level), increasing the level of complexity with each year,
until a BTech research proposal looks and reads very much like a masters
level one ...
With the masters level students we imported experts in research methodology
(besides our own group & one-on-one classes) to focus especially on
writing-for-publication, since our own students (who had come up from 1st
year) already knew the basics by heart ... and the external supervisors
could often not tell the difference between a masters and a doctoral
research proposal.
The "two years of solid research and methods training" you mentioned ...
break that down into digestible sections, stretch it backwards to first
year, and re-write the programme ... by the time a PhD student writes a
research proposal no additional training should be needed, unless
specialised knowledge is deemed necessary, in which case the students
themselves identify that field(s) of knowledge, knows where (and who from)
to get it, and sets out a programme of action in the proposal itself.
Johann
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Dr. Johann van der Merwe
Independent Design Researcher
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