please follow the guidelines of the proposal/final paper prompt choose from the following sources to write a paper on. I am requesting the proposal first then would love to have the same writer for the final paper as it has to correlate with the proposal. if things do not make sense please do not hesitate to ask! please provide a proposal with as much detail as possible as it is worth 20% of my grade. there is the main things the proposal needs as follows:
1. The Proposal (should include your name and the prospective title of your paper. Think of how your title can best reflect your content.)
This should be a piece of writing of between 250-300 words, which is a standard size for academic proposals. It should be in full sentences and more than one paragraph and should explain the following:
Your topic
Your primary texts (the story or stories), the parts of these texts you would like to focus on and at least one of the secondary texts you are interested in using. Remember that the primary text is the story that you write your paper on, and secondary texts are essays or other material about the story. If you want to use another story by the same author as a basis for comparison (such as looking briefly at The Selfish Giant for your paper on The Happy Prince), that would be using 2 primary texts.
The questions you want to explore (One question can have several sub-questions and you can include more questions here than you end up using in your paper. These should be fairly focused.)
Your working thesis (a statement that summarizes to your reader the main point or points you will be investigating in the paper)
Note that you can elaborate as much as you want on any of these topics. The point here is to generate as many ideas as you can so that you will give your reader the impression that you already have something to say about your topic. You will need to do some preliminary research to make your proposal successful. You may have to read or reread your primary source and work off notes you have taken and, if possible, read at least one secondary source.
Lengths for proposals vary. Ive seen calls for proposals as brief as 100 words and as long as 750 words, but 250 to 300 words are the most common range. Try to keep your proposal to that range without either sacrificing important content or padding it unnecessarily. Even on the professional level with length requirements, quality is more important.
2. The Outline
The outline is a 1-2 page sketch of your paper and will keep you on track and organized when you write it. It is a sketch so you can be fairly general here about the topics you want to write about. Again, include as much information as you have at this point. Also, pay attention to the way your topics flow together. Youll want one topic to logically flow from the next.
The outline format is usually either numbering or bullet points in a multilevel format. You may use either.
For the outline, write down all the topics (introductions and conclusions are nice, but not as necessary here) you are interested in exploring. Within these topics, write down the points you want to make, the arguments you want to make, the details you want to include, the relevant passages from the primary texts, and any arguments from secondary sources you want to include.
The more detailed your outline is, the better it is. This ultimately is for your reference so a more detailed outline gives you a better sense of what the papers going to look like, whether sections should be moved around for a better flow to your argument, and whether there are any gaps in your paper that you will need to fill in.
3. The Bibliography
Using MLA (Modern Languages Association) Format (I will link Purdue Universitys OWL guide to our Blackboard page and make sure that you look at MLA format.), list in alphabetical order (always by an author or editors last name) the primary text or texts you are using and at least 2 secondary sources.
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