Research Proposal

Week 7

Posted on: Monday, May 3, 2021 12:49:22 PM EDT

Greetings All! 

Remember, Week 6 assignments are due tonight by 11:59p.m EST.

And welcome to Week 7! This week is the last week of the research proposal project portion of INDS 400, and this is the week you submit the final version of your project.  

The Research Proposal should be the easiest assignment of all, since you have already written the main parts. You've created a topic, question, literature review, methodology, and rationale. Now it's time to put those together, add an introduction and conclusion, edit based on my feedback, and submit the whole thing! 

Remember, if you got ANY points off of your Literature Review and Methodology & Rationale, check why! You need to fix all mistakes for the Research Proposal. I will be checking!

Due for Week 7:

Reading & Study: 

· Textbook: "Writing a Research Proposal" 

· Article: "A Short Guide to Developing Interdisciplinary Research Proposals" 

· Video: "A Concrete Guide to Abstracts" 

· Video: "Finalizing Your Research Proposal" 

· Covey: Habit 6 

Assignments:  

· Research Proposal 

· Reading Quiz 7 

Remember three things as you do this week's homework:  

1. 1) You're talking to one specific scholarly or professional audience about why they should fund or publish the research you are proposing.  

2. 2) You're not arguing that your research will get a specific result or that someone should believe something about your topic. You just want them to support you asking the question.  

3. 3) Everything should be cohesive. Make sure all the pieces of your proposal make sense and flow together as you edit based on my feedback. 

Do these things, and I have all confidence that you will do great on this project. I'm excited to see your final proposal! 

I know that as we get to the end of the course you are all probably feeling tired. It makes me think of James1:4, which says, "Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing" (NKJV). The verse refers to trails, and I think some of you would count getting homework done as a trail! But with patience and perseverance, you will finish the class and be one step close to a 'perfect and complete' degree.

All the best,  Professor Nagel