Final Project Proposal Guidelines

Once you’ve chosen your topic, your next step will be to write a proposal for your research project.

Your proposal should include the following:

• The title of your project at the top of the page.
• At least a paragraph summarizing the goals of your project. This involves defining a specific research question. Your proposal, then, would introduce your topic, describe the question(s) you will be investigating, and explain the process you will use to answer those questions.
• An annotated bibliography, of at least 3 sources. These must be credible academic sources on your topic, including at least one book (print or electronic), one journal article from an academic database, and one web source.
• If you’ve never done an annotated bibliography before, this is simply a bibliography of your sources that includes brief descriptions of those sources. This means that when you’ve found your (minimum) three sources, you will list them as if you were making a regular Works Cited page, but then following each entry, you’ll write approximately a paragraph describing what the book or article is about, to clarify why it’s relevant for your research.

Here is a website that gives more helpful information about making an annotated bibliography, and where you can see an example of what one looks like.

https://rwu.libguides.com/annotatedbibliography

Your Final Project Proposal is due Sunday, April 14 at 5 p.m., EST and should be typed, double-spaced, and submitted as a Word document through Blackboard.