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Monday, April 15, 2013

Chapter 3: Developing Your Research Question and Proposal

Chapter three is all about beginning your research paper with a question and proposal. The book defines a research question as a brief question that focuses on a specific issue. Good research questions contain the six questions: what, why, when, where, who, and how. Gather questions that reflect you position on your paper in the way you intended.

Chapter three also talks about creating a research proposal, doing this by creating a formatted proposal with a title page, an intro that identifies the issue or question, a review of literature, a project timeline, and a bibliography. The title page and intro gives your readers an overview of your issue and the position you took. A review of literature is where you present an overview of important information collected from sources.

The proposal is said to help your reader ubderstand how you will collect info. This should include types of sources you use, types of search tools, types of strategies, and the schedule you'll follow as your research continues. The project timeline will give the reader the range of days, weeks, or months  it will take to complete the paper. An annotated bibliography lists all the sources you've collected and a description if that source.

Clarify and elaborate on your core proposal by choosing a way that fits you best. Like an abstract summary: a brief summary of your project to allow your reader to gain general understanding if your project and your plans for getting it done.
An overview of key challenges: share your thoughts about potential problems you'll need to address while working on your project. Discussing difficulties that might happen and an opportunity for your instructor to give feedback.
Funding request an rationale: provides a budget that identifies the cost for the key project activities.

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