Proposal (Other Major Assignment)

Your Proposal Needs the Following Elements:

1. An introduction that fully describes your topic. Approach this as similar to an introduction in a paper—establish your topic and a subject that is interesting.
2. The rationale/reasoning behind your choice of topic. Discuss what logic or thinking underlies you coming to consider this topic and your position on it.
3. Your claim and methodology (how you will go about proving your claim/types of sources). Specify your claim/thesis (tell me this explicitly—“My thesis will be…”) and discuss it means by which you will prove/support it.  In other words, what kind of information and sources will you use?
4. Audience identification and relevance to your project (look how your text describes your audiences, for example, on pages 172 and 437). Describe your audience and explore what their perspective is likely to be concerning your topic and claim (hostile, agreeable, or no opinion/limited interest). Given this, discuss what sort of approach you will need to establish your topic’s relevance and present your claim as most compelling.
5. Conclusion. Discuss where you will need to go from here—what must be done (specifically) to execute and finalize this paper (e.g., research steps).