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Unit II Research Proposal Follow the directions below for the completion of the Research Proposal assignment for Unit II. . Purpose: The purpose of the Research Proposal is to mold the preliminary ideas you have about your topic and to develop them in an academic manner. This development occurs as a direct result of your research on the subject. Therefore, this is your first formal articulation of your project. The Research Proposal is the next step towards writing assignments that will help you construct your Research Paper. Description: In this 500-600-word, essay-style Research Proposal, you will develop the project that you intend to write about for your final Research Paper for this course. If your Research Proposal is less than this word count, then it is likely you have not fully developed your proposal or adhered to the assignment appropriately, which can severely impact your grade for this assignment. Your Research Proposal will include the elements listed below. Your Research Proposal should also include a list of references in APA style and should adhere to APA convention throughout for in-text citation and style. When you write for academic or public audiences, it is imperative that you are supported by voices other than your own. In other words, even if you are an expert, you still must support your assertions.

In a Research Proposal, the same is true. For this assignment, you will include at least one source in your description of your tentative argument. The source cannot be yourself, an interview, or your text book. You must research your topic in order to gain a valid academic source that speaks to your topic in some way.

Elements:

Your Research Proposal grade will be largely based on your inclusion of the elements listed below, as well as your development of the project. For assistance, you might want to refer to Chapter 1, Section 1a, of The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises (pp. 3-4). Your Research Proposal must contain the following elements:

1. Cover page and APA formatting:

You will include an APA-style cover page for your Research Proposal. Your cover page should include the following: the title of your future Research Paper (this may be changed as your project develops), your name, and the name of your university. The cover page must also include a running head which should include up to 50 characters from the title of the paper, along with a sequential page number in the upper right-hand corner.

2. Purpose:

Review the purpose statement on p. 333 of Strategies for Writing Successful Research Papers. You may also want to refer to Chapter 1, Section 1c of The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises (pp. 6-7). The following questions should be addressed in the first paragraph of your Research Proposal, which should be dedicated to establishing your purpose for doing this particular project.

• What is your rationale for this project? • What do you hope to learn from the project, or what to do you want to see happen as a result of it? • Who is your audience for this project? Chapter 1, Section 1d, of The Little, Brown Compact

Handbook with Exercises (pp. 7-8) • What role will you play in this project: investigator or advocate?

3. Statement of qualification:

Address the following questions as they are applicable to your project.

• What is your investment in the topic? • What personal experience do you bring to the topic? • What special qualities do you bring to the project? • How might your investment, experience, and special qualities make you particularly apt at developing this

project?

4. Tentative argument:

Your final Research Paper for this course will be an argumentative, research-based, academic paper. W hile it is unlikely that you will have a concrete idea of what your entire argument will be at this point in the writing process, it is necessary for you to articulate your argument as you understand it to be right now. Address the following questions.

• What is the context surrounding your topic? In other words, is there some event that was a catalyst for bringing your topic into the public eye? (Optional) • What is your explanation or definition of the topic? • What is your analysis of the specific issue surrounding your topic? • What is your tentative thesis statement or hypothesis?

5. References:

Include a references list as the last page of your Research Proposal. All entries are those that have been cited in the text. No others are to be included. No textbooks should be included on the references list.

This long proposal example pulls together everything you have learned in this unit, following the elements listed above. A long proposal example has been provided for you.

Running head: TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN EDUCATION 1

Technology Is Transferring Human Education to Computers

Student Name

TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN EDUCATION 2

Technology Is Transferring Human Education to Computers

Technology is used every day. As time passes and technology becomes increasingly more

advanced, humans also become increasingly more dependent on that technology. This can be a

good thing because technology has the potential to make life considerably easier, but this can

also cause a deficiency in the human race, beginning at a basic level: children. One of the major

benefits of technology has been education in an online setting. However, this is also one of the

possibilities of deficiency in public interaction with other humans, stemming from elementary

schools. The foundation of this paper will examine both, while elaborating on the psychological

aspect of childhood de-socialization upon integrating them fully into the online setting, thereby

negating their human interactive development by natural socialization processes. I hope that my

research will go on to delay and even inhibit altogether the addition of primary schools to a

solely online setting. As an advocate for higher education in this setting, this paper will also

campaign against lawmakers who would seek to implement this style of learning into the primary

school levels due to the damage that it could inflict on the young.

This topic originated from personal experience in online learning and the benefits of such

a flexible learning style for the active life of an average adult with a profession, a family, and

various other daily demands on their time. The opposition being that of a teenager straight out of

high school, attending a traditional brick and mortar type college/university, without the cares of

an adult life yet. My passion comes from my direct experience in both a traditional college and

the online college experience. Additionally, I have a unique viewpoint as that of a previously

younger student from my primary/middle school days. I was able to see the differences in the

public school system and the private school system and can therefore correlate this difference to

being equal to that of the differences in online and traditional colleges. This gives me a stronger

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opinion of instilling socialization skills in children at an early age. Finally, my college study of

psychology, which is defined as “the scientific study of behavior and mental processes” (Matlin,

1999, p. 4) has illuminated the necessity of socialization as children, and the possibilities for

abnormal personality disorders that can manifest from the lack of early childhood socialization

(Nevid, Rathus, & Greene, 2008).

The tentative argument of this topic is based on the progression of schools that have

already conformed to the online setting. Gwinnett County, Georgia has already implemented

fully online high schools, and there is information regarding the full implementation of

elementary schools as well. The information that I intend to argue with this paper will illuminate

the negative effects of this action, by demonstrating the psychological aspects of our basic

human need for socialization (Macionis, 2009).

The world’s growing reliance on technology is transitioning human education to

becoming fully online, for all age and education levels, thereby removing the socialization

necessary for human public interaction. This statement will be the basis of my research of this

topic. With the discussion of socialization, I intend to demonstrate that we as humans “need

social experience to learn [our] culture and to survive” (Macionis, 2009, p. 72).

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Reference

Macionis, J. (2009). Society the basics (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice

Hall.

Matlin, M. E., (1999). Psychology (3rd ed.). Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace College.

Nevid, J. S., Rathus, S. A., & Greene, B. (2009). Abnormal psychology in a changing world

(Custom ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Prentice Hall.