WRITING for REAL:
Rhetorics of the Service-Learning Contact Zone

ASSIGNMENT:

A brief but concrete proposal for your research paper (typed, double-spaced, etc., as usual).

DUE:

The Research Proposal (for which I am your audience) is due in class on Thursday, April 24 (at our Library Workshop).

(The Research Topic Form, however, is due in class on Tuesday, April 22. I will submit these forms after class to Phyllis Kayten, the Green Reference librarian who will lead our Library Workshop; Phyllis will design the specifics of the workshop around you topocs.)

In advance of the Library Workshop, please take the Green Library Online Tour.

 

THE GENERAL IDEA/THE SPECIFIC POINT:

A Community Writing Research Project Proposal

If your research project will be a second community writing project for the quarter &endash; that is, for the direct use of your agency -- please submit a CWP contract describing the project. (Your plans, of course, must be pre-approved by the agency.) Describe the project according to its genre (or kind), its purpose, its audience, and its anticipated length (generally allow 250 words per typescript page). Also, make sure to explain where you anticipate finding most of your source material. Will your research include primary and secondary sources?

An Academic Research Paper Proposal

In a couple paragraphs, your research proposal should explain as specifically as possible what you plan to write your research paper about and where you expect to find your source material:

• Begin your proposal with your research question: what question at this point is driving your research?
• Explain your research paper topic briefly but specifically. What is your topic? Why is it important? What will the purpose of your research be? What will the purpose of your writing be? Who, aside from us, might your reader(s) be? What at this point do you think the main thrust of the paper might be?
• Is your research topic related at all to your Community Service Writing project? If it is, please explain how.
• What kinds of primary and secondary sources do you plan to use and how and where you propose to find them?