How to Polish Research Proposal English Without Expanding the Scope

Research proposal revision has a quiet danger: the English gets more impressive while the project gets less believable. A modest question becomes a field-level intervention. A small sample becomes a broad population. A method that can explore a pattern suddenly appears to prove a causal claim. The sentences may sound stronger, but the proposal has started promising more than the design can support.

The first revision pass should protect boundaries. Is the research question still specific? Does the method still match the question? Are the sample, archive, cases, or time frame described honestly? Proposal English often needs careful qualifiers: may, within, selected cases, preliminary, explore. These words are not weakness. They are part of feasibility. Removing them can make the writing bolder and less accurate at the same time.

Paragraph movement matters as much as sentence polish. A reader should quickly see the gap, question, method, and expected contribution. If every paragraph becomes broad background, the proposal may sound fluent while the project itself disappears. Easydue can help reduce direct-translation phrasing and mechanical transitions, but the research design still needs your manual review. Language should make the design visible, not quietly redesign it.