Proposal

• Name, RWU ID, email, phone
• Date
• Working title
• Thesis advisor
• Readers (two, proposed): name, title, contact information
• Statement of purpose, problem statement, hypothesis, or research question(s)
• Goal
  • Rational of how this work will contribute to the field and to your portfolio, professional goals
  • Justification of need, relevance, significance
• Literature review (preliminary)
• Research approach, methods—analytical techniques including data sources (primary and secondary), means of collection, measurement, variables, analysis), standards employed
• Outline (chapters)
• Timetable, schedule
• Limitations (what is beyond scope), issues, key assumptions, implications

Resources

 

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation by S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D., Michigan State University

How to Write a Thesis Statement by Writing Tutorial Service, Indiana University

Examples of Thesis (Masters) in Historic Preservation

Thesis Abstracts, Goucher College Master of Arts in Historic Preservation

Index of Master's Thesis 1985-2003 (Titles, no abstract), Historic Preservation, School of Design, Pennsylvania University

Master of Historic Preservation Thesis Titles, School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia

Alumni & Theses, Historic Preservation Program, University of Oregon. Includes author, title, abstract.

Pinyerd, David. The Preservation of Pre-World War II Coast Guard Architecture in Oregon. Master of Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2000.

Senior Theses (scroll down), Cultural & Historic Preservation Program, Salve Regina University.