Topic and Instructions for Paper #2, a 4 – 6 page (10001500 word) Research Proposal for your final 8 – 10 Research PaperDue dates:Workshop Day Peer Review: 22 March 2021Paper Due (Uploaded to Turnitin via Canvas): 24 March 2021The research proposal can be considered a draft of your final research essay; the more detailed and inquisitive your proposal in terms of thinking through areas of inquiry, formulating research questions, and researching scholarly sources, the easier your job will be when you are working on your final essay. You will then have more time to finesse, review and edit your final essay.Remember to synthesize information from your scholarly sources into your proposal as demonstrated in the example proposals we reviewed in class. In addition, append your four annotated bibliographical entries to your proposal.Consider these questions before and while you write your proposal.Why is your topic interesting and arguable? To you? To a larger audience?What will your thesis be?If your topic seems narrow, how can you expand on it?What are related areas you might consider including?If your topic seems broad or unwieldy, what are the most salient points you must include?What are your clear objectives for each section? Is what you hope to accomplish clear?Do you pose reasonable and relevant research questions?What other questions might you pose?How will you develop your topic? How many sources have you found? What are some creative ways you may go about finding additional sources?Have you kept track of all of your sources?
cIn the upper left hand corner:Your nameProfessor Leonard FAW 2 Section 06, 08, 1124 March 2021cInteresting title is centered and is not underlined or in quotation marks. (One of my colleagues thinks of the title as the cherry on the top of a sundae.)Consider a title with a colon for maximum effect. For example, Gender Plus Poverty: A Not So Simple Solution in South AfricaGender and the CEO: How Men and Women Differ in Executing Executive TaskscPithy thesis statement is at conclusion of lucid introductory paragraph.cPage numbers of quoted material appear at the end of the sentence in which they appear like this (Shelley 42). Period follows the parentheses. cText titles are italicized.cNo contractions.cStandard essay formatting:c1 margins all around. c12-point fontcEssay is evenly double-spaced. (No triple or quadruple spacing ever,) cParagraphs are at least five to seven sentences long. c Paper focuses on analysis; articles are neither summarized not retold and do not comprise the entire paper or the majority of a paragraph. cParallel structure in all of its forms is minded:cPronouns agree in number with their antecedents.cVerbs agree in number with their subjects.
cTense is consistent.c Items in a list have the same grammatical structure.cPeople are who or whom and things are that.c Plurals and possessives are not confused (for example, its and its).cAll sentences are connected to those that precede and follow them. cTransitions create a connected flow that leads your reader from paragraph to paragraph.cSentences beginning with subordinating conjunctions or prepositional phrases contain commas.cVocabulary is interesting and diction is correct.cQuotations are introduced and concluded; never conclude a paragraph with a quotation; you conclude with your own analytical words.cQuotations are limited to the minimum amount necessary to support your point.cAppositives are correctly punctuated. (For example: Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the novel after participating in a ghost story contest.)cConclusion brings your essay to an end by drawing a conclusion and does not simply reiterate what has already been said.cWorks Cited list is appended. Review citation formats in The Little Seagull Handbook.c INCLUDE 4 Annotated Bibliography entries from scholarly sources.c Essay is uploaded to Turnitin. (1/3 grade reduction for not uploading.)c Word count is listed.c
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