ENGL135 Week 2 COURSE PROJECT - RESEARCH PROPOSAL AND OUTLINE Latest 2018 September

ENGL135 Advanced Composition

Week 2 COURSE PROJECT - RESEARCH PROPOSAL AND OUTLINE

This assignment was locked Sep 22 at 11:59pm.

The research proposal and outline will present the topic you have selected for your Course Project. The purpose of the proposal is to persuade your reader to believe that you are interested in the topic and ready to learn how to develop the topic into a project. The format of the proposal is a sentence outline (approximately 250 words minimum). Use APA style to document any sources referenced in your proposal. When you are finished, save the document as <your last name.Wk2 Proposal Assignment> and submit it by the end of the week.

The Course Project - Research Proposal and Outline is worth 50 points.

See the Files section (located in the Course Menu) for the support documents. The Week 2 files are listed below, along with their location:

Week 2 Proposal Directions and Document Format [Files > Advanced Composition > Supplemental Materials]

Week 2 Grading Rubric Proposal [Files > Advanced Composition > Grading Rubrics]

Submit the assignment.

I. Introduction

A. Topic

1) What is your research question?

2) What is your working thesis?

3) What is your angle on the topic?

B. Context

1) Justify for your reader why the topic is important.

2) Justify for your reader why you are the one to write about it. What do you bring to the topic?

C. Audience

1) Who is your primary audience?

2) Who is your secondary audience?

3) Does your audience share your opinions and values?

II. Evidence

A. What research have you gathered so far?

B. What research do you need to gather?

III. Conclusion

IV. References