Paper POLS

You will turn in a one-page single spaced paper proposal for your paper. 

 

In the research proposal, you must identify the information you will be presenting in your paper and provide suggestions for how you are going to support your claims. This is both to encourage you to be thinking about your paper early on in the semester and to give me an opportunity to provide you with feedback and resources that may help you along the way. 

 

You should also look at the paper assignment instructions and rubric for guidance on how to frame the project. 

 

While significant portions of your paper may change before the final copy if you decide that you need/want to change the entire topic of your paper I expect that you will meet with me before hand to explain why. 

 

Theory

What are the important aspects of the IR theory that you will be covering in your paper?  What are the things most crucial to the theory that you will have to address?

 

Event:

Which event are you going to cover?    Briefly outline what you think the important aspects of the

 

Sources:

You should include enough relevant literature (sources) to indicate that there is sufficient information available to indicate that you are familiar with the important aspects of the institution you have chosen.  These sources must be appropriate academic sources.  (See powerpoint from the lecture on the first week of class)

 

Application:

Your proposal should also indicate that you have thought about the direction of your paper and how you will apply the theory to the event.  What are the aspects of the event that clearly fit into the IR theory?  What does the theory not explain?