Research Proposal
Research Proposal
Research Proposal
A research proposal is used by scholars to introduce and justify a need to study a particular
problem or idea. The goal here is to gather approval and support for your study before you begin
collecting data and searching for answers to your research questions. To prove to your audience
that you are ready to begin your study, you will need to justify the need for this project, explain
your own investment and interest in conducting this study, and articulate what the full study
would look like so your audience knows that you are prepared.
Your Assignment:
For your Research Proposal, you will need to outline a full study based on your chosen scholarly
conversation and line of inquiry. Your proposal will have numerous parts to it, outlined below,
but the main goal for this assignment is to critically engage with the material we have been
working with thus far. You will need to prove that you have engaged in academic inquiry by
selecting an inquiry topic that you are genuinely curious about, listened to the scholarly
conversation by collecting relevant and credible secondary sources, and critically
contemplated what a research study looks like by planning out methods and a timeline for the
full research process.
In 4+ pages, your research proposal must include: