Common Reasons for Failure
- Unimportant/unresponsive idea
- Diffuse, superficial, unfocused approach
- Rationale not acceptable
- Insufficient preliminary data demonstrating knowledge in the field/technique
- Aims/Objectives depend on each other’s outcomes
- Overly ambitious
- Insufficient discussion of outcomes, alternatives and future directions
- Incomprehensible writing )e.g. “too dense”)
Last updated: 5/26/2015