ENG221: Week 7: Research Proposal

Week 7: Research Proposal

Instructions

Final Assignment:

Throughout this course, we have been learning how to create a scientific research paper by looking at examples done by other authors. For this final assignment, you will work on the beginning stages of your own scientific research paper. 

Find a specific topic that interests you. (STEM student should choose STEM research articles; psychology students should choose Psychology research articles).

Develop a research question about that topic. (Please review the “Research Question” section, found in the content section of Lesson One).

Research your chosen topic and find at least three peer-reviewed sources that discuss this topic. (Peer-reviewed sources are journal articles that have been examined by experts for accuracy. These sources, as discussed in the “Key Elements of M&M Section” of Lesson Four, should have the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussions, and Conclusions. If you need help finding sources, please ask your librarians and/or visit the Scientific Writing center of the library).

After reading your articles, create three annotated bibliographies for these sources. (For more information about how to develop an annotated bibliography, visit Week 3’s Literature Review section, which contains a discussion about how to create an annotated bibliography).

Based upon your findings from the research you conducted on your chosen topic, develop a hypothesis that you could focus on in your future research.

Finally, create an introduction for your project that discusses your topic/research question/and hypothesis. You can use the outside sources you found for your annotated bibliography to provide background knowledge. (For more information about introductions and hypotheses, please visit “The Introduction as Good Storytelling” and “The Introduction” section from Week Three’s lesson).