ASSIGNMENT 1 :
As you develop your Research Proposal, you should revisit the Project 1 Overview and the guidelines of P1 to be sure you are completing all the project requirements. The following areas must be thoroughly addressed in the Research Proposal:
- 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.
After revisiting the Project 1 requirements, going over formatting guidelines, and looking at the sample research proposals, please complete and submit a final checklist for your P1 final draft. Map out what you already have done and what more needs to be completed before you submit the your final draft.
assignment 2 : Project 1
To begin the semester, students identify a research question that interests them and prepare a 3- to 5-page proposal outlining some of the current research in this area and planning their own expanded research. This proposal serves as a basis for Project 2. The guiding questions for Project 1 are: “What do I know about research and sources? How do I know which sources are right for my purpose? How do I evaluate sources?” my topic is about computer science
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