Paper #3-Proposal Guidelines

Paper #3: Proposal Guidelines

Paper #3:  Proposal Guidelines (1 to 2 pages)

 

Your third paper involves more research and source material than your previous ones, so it’s important to establish a good working thesis before you start the process of writing and researching.  You’ll need to use at least 5 outside sources for this project, so your proposal should include the following information:

 

1. Working Thesis.  What is the trend that you want to analyze, and what is the basic analysis of it that you intend to carry out?  What is the argument about causes and effects that you intend to take about this trend, and what are your major reasons for making that argument?

 

2. Identifying the Trend.  How do you know that this trend exists?  How will you prove that it does?   Point out at least some specific sources that you think you will use to help you prove the existence of the trend (you may change these later on).  List the titles of the articles, web resources, or books that you think you will use, and provide Works Cited information on them.

 

3. Analyzing the Trend.  Re-state your major arguments for the causes and effects of the trend, and list as many sources as you can find to prove that your arguments are good ones.  These sources could be other magazine or newspaper articles on the same subject (or books about it), but they could also be statistical databases, general cultural studies, newspaper articles, blogs, web resources, or interviews that you conducted (as well as other sources!).  Provide Works Cited information for these resources.

 

Write this up and post it to the Wiki site by midnight, 11/5.  Hand in a printed copy to me in class on 11/6.