The ALRA way on research conceptualization: a note

The agile literature review approach (ALRA) way on research conceptualization: a note

The first time a research student takes up a research project to do, he/she has little idea of how to come up with a preliminary project proposal topic. Very often, it is not clear how to identify and firm up on the research project title, research objectives, and research questions, etc..

The university requires research students to fill in an research project application form in around 300 words and then a project proposal in 1,500 words. It sounds like a small task to draft something in 300 words, but it is fundamentally not clear what the dissertation project topic should be? And initial attempts to do so very often receive the project supervisor's feedback on the proposal as "too complicated",  "too messy", "inappropriate" and/ or "without adequate justification of the proposal ideas", etc.

The conventional advice mainly comes from the topic of research conceptualization. Those advice could only be understood with certain intellectual competence gained via certain level of learning effort on the underlying subject of research methods and subject areas (e.g. various business management subjects for the MBA students). Otherwise, those advice remains quite abstract and vague to research project students. Additional help is available from the research practice guidelines from the agile literature review approach (ALRA). As such, the ALRA can be considered as a recent knowledge domain on research conceptualization. It is not clear when the ALRA is more widely recognized in the academic community as a valuable sub-knowledge domain in research conceptualization study.