Preparation to Do Masters or PhD!?

Those who have an idea to do Masters/ PhD, but do not know how to move on?

1. Finalised which area you are interested in. How about you?
2. You may have a tentative topic. Based on your topic, find key words.
3. Search for journals, read related thesis and refer to chapter
4. With reading knowledge, meet a few Profs and senior lecturers and tune their reliable ideas pertaining to the topic. Have you done that?
5. Then, finalised a few issues for the problem statement. What are the issues will be brought to PhD Studies? Have you?
6. (Further research).
7. Find objectives based on the issues (problem statement). Have you?
8. I have read more than 30 articles and tabulated them and found a gap? Have you?
9. Then, outline your frameworks.
10. Then, consider about the ethical clearance and where I intend to get the data? How to access easily? So, I wrote a letter to a few companies to access the data. How about you?
11. Find research designs, if can try to do a pilot study to find out whether the methodology which you have chosen reliable or not.
12. Then write your research proposal based on your University or Faculty guidelines.