Proposal
According to Paul T. P. Wong, the proposal can either make or break your entire paper. The proposal is the “backbone” of the entire paper. Your proposal should not only lock in your audience but it must state everything you wish to accomplish in your research paper. There were 3 questions that the article I found insisted you must answer in your proposal: “What you plan to accomplish, why you want to do it and how you are going to do it.” As the article continues, it lists the possible parts of a proposal. These parts are title, abstract, introduction, literature review, methods, results, and discussion. Even though you do not have your results for your proposal Wong says that you should know the direction it should be going. Also, there is a list of common mistakes that many people make when writing a research proposal. The list is helpful because you can go along with it as you are writing your paper and make sure that you do not do those things. This article was very helpful in clearly showing me how to compose a proposal and I am sure I will refer back to it, as I urge anyone reading this to as well, throughout my writing process.
Article site: http://www.meaning.ca/archives/archive/art_how_to_write_P_Wong.htm
Outline
The OWL at Purdue said there were four main points to creating your outline. These 4 points are Parallelism, Coordination, Subordination, and Division. The website showed examples of each to make the meaning more clear. The next page then explains why you want an outline and how to make it. The reason for having an outline in a few words is that it helps you organize your information allowing you to see if topics are related. How to create an outline is listed as 3 D’s Determine your paper, Determine your audience, Develop a thesis. The most common type of research outline to write is Alphanumeric. It is what most people usually write which contains Roman Numerals, Capital Letters, Arabic Numerals, and Lowercase Letters. There are also two other types of outlines. They are Full Sentence and Decimal Outlines. The Full Sentence outline is similar to Alphanumeric but the difference is that you must write full sentences for this type. Decimal Outlines are similar to Alphanumeric as well except that the use of decimals adds more detail to the outline.
Purdue University. (1995-2009). Developing an Outline. Retreived September 13, 2009, from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/544/03/
My proposal and outline
citation was done well and your presentation of information was clear .
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