10 STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO ACADEMIC RESEARCH PROPOSAL WRITING is a guidebook that provides a practical guide in writing a convincing research proposal. The book offers clear guidelines on how to develop, write, and organise a research proposal. Furthermore, it provides samples of nine selected actual research proposals that have been examined and approved by the proposal defence examiners/committee, in order to provide a better understanding and more insightful guidance on research proposal writing. This book is useful to postgraduate students, as well as new researchers especially in the social sciences area as it helps readers knowing what and how to write a research proposal.