What is the specific topic are you exploring for P1? Be as detailed as possible and include any subtopics you might explore. Provide a summary and brief review of your topic, complete with information about the significance of this topic and the purpose of communicating about it.
What question are you following to guide and organize your research? What have you discovered so far and what do you want to discover about your topic?
Who is your anticipated audience? Why would the research you’re planning to write about matter to your anticipated audience? What appeals to them? What are their values?
What information have you found so far from your sources, and how well do those sources support your proposed topic? Do you have one or more key ideas you want to feature in your essay, and what are they if so? Explain in detail. What other sources do you think you might need going forward? What source material/evidence are you missing?
- Thoroughly explain your proposed approach to fully researching your topic for the research essay in P2. What kinds of research will you look at in addition to what you have already found? Where will you search for additional sources (not search engines or the library, but which scholarly journals or other sources might be applicable?) Which popular sources might you search for? Where are the gaps in your research that you hope to fill in?
- In addition, the Research Proposal must be an organized, academic piece of writing of 3- to 5-pages that is free of grammatical errors and displays a formal writing style. While lower-order-concerns like spelling and grammar are not the most important components of P1, they should be considered to ensure the final draft meets academic writing expectations. Finally, any sources you have found through your initial research should be in MLA or APA format, or another academic format you choose (with instructor approval). This includes a works-cited page and in-text citations.
- Below you will find three student samples of research proposals that are from another type of writing class but they are included here because they provide examples of well-structured thinking and robust and effective research proposal writing that can be used to model your own proposal for P1. These samples are intended to help you and should not be duplicated.
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