Proposal Guideline
A
proposal should be considered your plan for your research project. The
following illustrates what you need to include in your proposal.
1. Introduction:
You should identify the issue you have decided to focus on for your
research paper. You
can start with some personal background information. Tell me why you
are interested in exploring this topic. You can share some experiences
that have inspired your interest in this issue. Then you can state your
research questions, tentative thesis statement, etc. You
also want to consider your readers (a hypothetical, UNDECIDED
audience, meaning don't just use pathos, since your reader will want
logic and facts as well) and tell what and why they need to know about
the issue.
2. Talk about your plan for writing your paper, some
general ideas, etc. If you’re taking a tentative position, what are
some potential counter-arguments and how might you address them?
3. Collecting
sources: In this section, tell me step by step how you are going to
find information, such as primary and secondary sources. You
can talk about how you are planning to find your sources through
databases, Web sites, and card cat (as well as interlibrary loan,
perhaps). I don’t need tons of research (yet) but a quote or statistic
will greatly bolster your proposal.
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