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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.
Example:
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The purpose of a proposal is to highlight standout ideas, and to do so in a manner that can
convince an audience to support a project. Proposals delivered in a workplace are often part of a
competitive process in which the strongest proposal is offered the business. In these contexts,
effective word choice and professional delivery define the effective communication of an idea.
Your research proposal will be presented as a sentence outline. As the name suggests, the
sentence outline presents complete thoughts in complete sentences as opposed to phrases. In each
section of the proposal, choose ideas with the goal of persuading your reader to believe that you
are interested in the topic and ready to learn how to develop the topic into a project. Use a
complete sentence to provide the response to each of the questions below. You can use first
person. Use APA documentation for the final section of the proposal to document any sources
referenced in your proposal. Remember to put at least two items at any given level of the outline,
as shown in this template and the sample proposal.
I.
Introduction
A. Topic
1)
What is your research question?
2)
What is your working thesis? (It answers your research question and
defines the direction of your argument.)
3)
What is your angle on the topic? (Your angle is your unique perspective or
view on the issue.)
B. Context
1)
Justify for your reader why the topic is important.
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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? (These are the readers who would be best
affected by what you have to say. They can be readers of an existing
publication.)
2)
Who is your secondary audience? (Identify this audience as your professor
and fellow students.)
3)
Does your audience share your opinions and values? (Determine if the
audience is on your side or if they may be skeptical.)
II.
Evidence
A.
What research have you gathered so far? (What have you found that supports your
purpose and angle?)
B.
What research do you need to gather? (What other kinds of information will you
need as support? What will you use to represent the opposing view?)
III.
Conclusion (What are you proposing to achieve with your project? What would you like
approval on in order to proceed with the project?)
IV.
References (must be correctly formatted according to the APA Publication Manual)