Worksheet: Writing a Paper Proposal - Terri Senft

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FINALLY, THIS DOESN’T GO IN THE PROPOSAL, BUT: Your Lingering Questions: Although I’m generally enthusiastic about the subject matter I’ve chosen for my final paper/project, I still have a number of lingering questions about how to proceed in order to turn in a strong final product. My questions are: (state your questions). Here are the steps I’m am going to try to take to address those questions (state your steps.) (For example, "Although I’m generally enthusiastic about the subject matter I’ve chosen for my final paper/project, I still have a number of lingering questions about how to proceed in order to turn in a strong final product. My questions are: is a mere textual analysis of English/Spanish use sufficient to make claims about Latina blogger identity? What if I coupled textual analysis of blogs with ethnographic interviews of bloggers themselves? To address these questions, I am going see what Terri thinks. I'm also going to ask her for resources on the practice of interviewing on the internet.") SEE NEXT PAGE FOR FINAL PROPOSAL TEMPLATE 4
Proposal Template for Class DO NOT reproduce this language exactly! Use your own words. Tentative Title of Paper: _________________________________ This paper (examines, explores, analyzes, interrogates, etc) the (phenomenon, practice, event, etc.) of (your “object” goes here.) As a research topic, mine is a timely one for the fields of Liberal/Cultural Studies because: (state your reason here.) Elements of this of this research that are of particular interest to me are: (detail one or two questions/observations/etc, here.) Throughout this project, I rely on a number of critical frames, including the work of (writer) on (subject); (writer) on (subject); and (writer) on (subject.) While I find (writer #1)’s observations regarding (subject) to be important when considering my topic, I think these observations need to be (broadened, altered, updated, etc.) for the following reasons: ________________ (state reasons here.) Likewise, (stick writer #2’s thoughts that are important but need to be added to or altered in light of your research project. ) Given what has been written around this topic so far and my preliminary thoughts on the matter, my working hypothesis is (state some guesses you are taking about how the research will turn out, here.) I plan to test this hypothesis by (explain precisely what materials you will be looking at, here.) Using (name your methodology here), I’ll be posing questions such as: (name one or two questions you’ll be asking as you look at your materials.) (Note: If you have personal experience with this material that you think would be useful to acknowledge or highlight, you can discuss it here, or further upwards in the document. ) 5
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