The Written Prospectus ii. The Thesis Prospectus Meeting i. The goal of your thesis prospectus is to communicate clearly the relevance and plausibility of your work.
Most prospectuses range between four and ten pages, although there is no maximum or minimum length.
And although the format of the prospectus also varies, one standard format includes the following, written by and used with permission of Stephen Kosslyn. The following outlines a structured framework for asking and answering scientific questions. It can be used to organize and plan your own research, outline your writing about it, and help understand the research of others. Importantly, it can help you make clear what the question is that you are asking, and help relate it directly to some means of testing it. This framework is useful not just in psychology and science, but in any endeavor in which data is used to discriminate between alternative arguments.