What you must cover in this research proposal are some of the complexities of student plagiarism in the form, of an introduction, this should be based on a critical analysis of the literature.  Identify two issues that you would like to design a research project around. Discuss why these are important and how they will help to explore the problem of plagiarism.

Determine what information and data you would need to collect.   Apply both deductive and inductive reasoning  investigate the issues, discuss the merits and limitations of each approach and the conditions under which each approach should be applied

Identify two methods of collecting data associated with each approach discuss the benefits and limitations of both.  Discuss which would be best for collecting the information you need.

Identify two methods of analysing the data given the collection methods you have unidentified.  Discuss the benefits and limitations of each.

Speculate on what you might find from a research project such as this