Writing a Research Proposal for Individual Opinion Pieces
Due by Monday, April 17th
1. Introduce your Research Topic and Describe its
Projected Value
- · Introduce your research topic and explain why you have chosen it – the source of its interest or importance for you.
- · Describe what you anticipate to be the value of your research project for others, as well as yourself.
- · Write your proposal for a general, uninformed audience. (In your discussion you may wish to answer these kinds of questions: Why is this research project of interest to you and worth doing? What do you hope to gain from it? How do you think you and/or others may be able to use or benefit from your research findings?)
2. State your Leading Research Question and Working
Hypothesis
- · State the leading Research Question that you propose to pursue for your research project.
- · State your Working Hypothesis—that is, propose an initial response to that leading Research Question
3. Describe your Research Strategy:
Your goal is to convince your reader that you have a well-defined point of
departure for your research project and a clear sense of direction as you
launch into your research in earnest, supported by substantial, promising
exploratory research and serious preliminary thinking and reading about your topic.
- · What do you need to find out through your research? Provide an organized list of the important questions raised by your topic, key terms and concepts to be defined and explained, and relevant inferences and assumptions that you hold about your topic and that you will open to question and investigation. Your lists of questions and assumptions should be grouped or organized logically into related categories and major lines of inquiry relevant to and supportive of your leading Research Question and Working Hypothesis.
- · How and where will you look for answers? [Don't just respond, "In the library."]
4. List
Sources Already Consulted in Your Research.
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