Eng&102 Short Assignment #1, Draft #1- Research Proposal

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Short Assignment 1: RESEARCH PROPOSAL

In professional and academic situations, proposals are often used as a way to plan larger projects, but also to gain support for them (in the form of money, institutional legibility, and other resources). As such, a successful proposal situates the author as credible and the project as both feasible and valuable.

Your Task:

For this assignment, you will write a 2-3 page proposal that outlines your goals for Major Project, why your argument matters (and for whom), and how you plan to accomplish the task. This is a moment for you to pause and reflect on exactly what you are planning so that you can identify areas that may need more work or things you want to explore from a different perspective.

Your proposal should:

1. Articulate a tentative claim for your Major Project (remember—because this process is inquiry-based, you may find that your claim changes as you think about and research your topic)
2. Explicitly address the stakes of the claim
3. Identify the possible counterarguments and assumptions of your claim, and point to how you might address them
4. Give a very brief overview of the sources you plan to work with (this may just be an overview of the kinds of sources you will work with, such as other critical readings of your text or contemporary theories of intersectionality)
5. Contain a tentative, very general outline—what shape do you imagine the paper taking? What structure would work well, given the parts of your complex claim?

Formatting: 500-750 words total, MLA heading, page numbers, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins