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PracticingIntellectualVirtues.docxPracticing Intellectual Virtues: Research Project Proposal
The research assignments in this class build into a 3-5 page (or 1,500 to 2,250 words) single-spaced, cited, research project proposal. This project is for your lifelong learning and should only be strong starting point for you to do more later in life, perhaps long after our term. Sources must be properly accounted for, just for this purpose! The proposal can be written to your future self or you may even use your imagination to “apply” for research funding.
A few suggestions of how you may approach this assignment:
1) Focus on bringing out the four elements required (below).
2) Look over other student examples for inspiration and sources but do not copy
content.
3) Perhaps find a real organization (perhaps an archive, University, nonprofit or NGO, UN agency, news outlet, institution, military academy, US Institute of Peace, the Wilson Center, Harvard Law School, or any government or public entity, etc) that offers support for research or-- pretend there is such an entity. Write your research proposal as if it is for a real or imagined means of support (be it a fellowship, graduate program, internship, government agency position, etc) using your research thus far.
4) Or, you could even write a “letter to the editor” to explain to the public why this problem requires more research using your research thus far. Why should anyone care? Show us what you already know and what is left to learn.
Four elements are required
in the research proposal:
1) Explain why this research question or topic is important or even vital
2) Share what you have researched thus far in a tight but specific summary using a
historical analytical lens
3) Integrate at least one author from our course readings, two of your primary sources and six secondary sources into the text of the proposal with footnotes, or intext citations (author,page) or any legitimate citation system (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc.) used in your discipline. History of science, which is Chicago Style, is the most specific and useful for long term research projects.
4) Show how you plan to continue this research: what needs to be done next?
