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What is your research question? What is your research plan? How do you plan to find the research you need
and construct the argument in your essay? Since your audience will be an academic one, your research and
argument proposal should follow an accepted academic structure for presenting your claims and your evidence.
This assignment will be a little bit like a detailed essay outline, and you must address each of the sections below
in detail.
Requirements: You must include the following
1. Your research question. Remember, it needs to be narrow and specific. See the notes below.
2. Summarize one important claim you have discovered in the ongoing conversation on this topic (with
source/s).
3. Summarize an opposing claim you have discovered in the ongoing conversation on this topic (with
source/s).
4. What you think is questionable or problematic about some of these claims?
5. Discuss your claim is in regards to this topic. What do you want to make your audience aware of
and/or convince them of? (this can also be thought of as your tentative thesis)
6. What might other people doubt about your claim and how you might respond to them?
Other Requirements: Your response should be about 2-3 double-spaced pages (600-900 words). You should make
an attempt to cite the sources you use to discuss the claims you have found in connection to your topic. Use this
exercise as an opportunity to improve your MLA skills. If you include quotations from the original text, make sure
they are short quotations (no more than 3 lines long). You can also save the citations for this assignment and use
DUE: Monday, November 14. Upload to Moodle AND print one copy for in-class activities.
The Research Proposal is worth 50 points.
Rough Draft Due: Print 3 copies for Peer Review on Mon November 21. Draft should be at least 3-4 pages.
Final Draft Due: Monday, November 28th. Upload to Moodle. The Research Paper is worth 200 points.