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May 20: Undergraduate Research Symposium
May 27: Chinese Education
June 10: Proposal Presentations
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May 16: Proposal Components Due
By 5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 16, you should post a preliminary outline of the structure of your project to the discussion board. The form is based on the table we filled out in a preliminary way in class on Friday, May 7. It includes the following components:
- Your research question. This is what you want to find out in your project, posed in question format. It should be no more than three sentences.
- The background of your research. In 100-200 words, what you need to know about in order to understand why the research is important, and to do the research. This should include a summary of what we know about the social, environmental, cultural, historical or other relevant context in which the thing you are researching takes place.
- The content of your research. This should be a 100-300 word elaboration on your research question.
- Your methods. This should be 100-300 words on what you need to do to gather information (from documentary sources, field observations, interviews, surveys, participant observation, etc.) to answer your question. You might want to list the methods if you are using more than one.
- The significance of your research. What your project might teach other researchers, or how it might be of value to the general public. Or, in other words, "so what?"
Then, by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, please post a short comment on someone else's proposal. The comment should be in the form of a question--something that you think your classmate needs to clarify or expand--or a suggestion for how to improve some part of the proposal.
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