RESEARCH PAPER PROPOSAL
| ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONICS/ ELECTRICAL The research paper proposal is a short paper where you announce what your topic is going to be, review what general knowledge you already have, and indicate the tentative direction you are going in as a thesis. Paper should be 400-500 words. Title your paper. First two paragraphs should review background. What is your topic, as clearly and specifically as can be presented? What do you know about it so far? What are possible alternative interpretations of that topic – controversy around that topic, or positions other readers might take? Third paragraph should be your tentative thesis – what you think the direction of your argument is, and why so far. You can write this paper in the first person “I plan to argue that…” You could also state your research question before the thesis. Final paragraph should indicate the direction of your research – what you plan on doing from that point on, what you need specifically to learn to understand your topics, i.e. “I would like to find statistics on how many women graduate with a high school diploma in Uganda. |
