Chapter three of the Bedford
Researcher talks about how to start a project proposal. The first couple of
pages begins by directing how to generate a research question, by reflecting on
your writing situation and process, then generating potential questions, and
finally crafting and refining those questions to reflect your writing
situation. After you've developed your research question the chapter goes on to
explain how to create a research proposal. It identifies the basis of the
proposal such as the title page, an introduction that identifies your topic
issue/research question, a review of your literature that represents
information and arguments in the sources you've collected, an explanation of
how you collect information books journals types of search tools types of
strategies, a project timeline, and a working or annotated bibliography.
In reading this chapter I found that I've been looking at
this project in completely the wrong way. I've been stressing out too much
about what exactly I'm arguing when I should have been paying more attention on
just getting a broader scope of the topic in general. This chapter really
helped me to clear up a few things and helped me realize that I had all but changed
my mind about what it is I think I was going to argue in my research paper. I
think writing this proposal really helped clarify things for me on which
sources I actually found the most useful.
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