Preparing a Proposal
If your instructor asks you to prepare a proposal for your project, here's a format that may help:
State your thesis or hypothesis completely. If you're having trouble doing so, try outlining it in Toulmin terms:
Claim:
Reason(s):
Warrant(s):
Alternatively, you might describe the complications of a definitional issue you hope to explore in your project, with the thesis perhaps coming later.
- Explain why this argument of definition deserves attention. What's at stake? Why is it important for your readers to consider?
- Identify whom you hope to reach through your argument and why these readers would be interested in it. How might you involve them in the paper?
- Briefly discuss the key challenges that you anticipate in preparing your argument.
- Determine what sources you expect to consult: Web? Databases? Dictionaries? Encyclopedias? Periodicals?
- Determine what visuals to include in your definitional argument.
Preparing a Proposal
If your instructor asks you to prepare a proposal for your project, here's a format that may help:
State your thesis or hypothesis completely. If you're having trouble doing so, try outlining it in Toulmin terms:
Claim:
Reason(s):
Warrant(s):
Alternatively, you might describe the complications of a definitional issue you hope to explore in your project, with the thesis perhaps coming later.
- Explain why this argument of definition deserves attention. What's at stake? Why is it important for your readers to consider?
- Identify whom you hope to reach through your argument and why these readers would be interested in it. How might you involve them in the paper?
- Briefly discuss the key challenges that you anticipate in preparing your argument.
- Determine what sources you expect to consult: Web? Databases? Dictionaries? Encyclopedias? Periodicals?
- Determine what visuals to include in your definitional argument.