An exploratory genre analysis of three graduate degree research proposals in applied linguistics

Table 2 Information on research proposals and authors

	P1	P2	P3
Student Origin	Malaysia	Philippines	Singapore
Year of Admission	2005	2005	2005
Program	PhD	PhD	MA-PhD^a
Research Area	Educational Phonology	Critical Discourse Analysis	Critical Discourse Analysis
Word Count	3630	2009	1459

^aMA-PhD indicates the status of the student who, though initially admitted as an MA student was now in the process of upgrading to PhD candidature