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April 15: Sichuan History and Culture
April 22: Previous Student Projects
April 29: Present Your Ideas
May 6: Professional Proposals
May 13: Life in Chengdu
May 20: Undergraduate Research Symposium
May 27: Chinese Education
June 10: Proposal Presentations
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June 8, Proposal Draft Due
By 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8, you should post a complete draft of your proposal, including all the components below, to the discussion board. The form is the same as you used for your components post on May 12, but the sections should be filled out, and thus a bit longer, as indicated below. You also need to add the sixth element below, the bibliography:
- 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 200-400 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 300-500 word elaboration on your research question.
- Your methods. This should be 300-500 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. 200-300 words on what your project might teach other researchers, or how it might be of value to the general public. Or, in other words, "so what?"
- Your bibliography. This should include all the sources you used and cited in your proposal.
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