Research Proposal and Design
There are five core pillars to address for your first assignment:
- How or why is the issue RELEVANT to Canadian politics? How is this issue important or meaningful in a Canadian political context?
- Persuasiveness of the claims. Why is this issue interesting to you. Why should others care or be interested in this issue too?
- Clarity of research question about the issue presented. Clear, concise, focused but complex, and arguable. No yes or no questions!
- Credibility of the PLAN to answer the question. How are you going to operationalize the research to carry out the steps of the research to answer the research question?
- Professionalism. Edit your work. Proofread, catch typos, correct grammar use, reasonable/professional type formatting. For example, include the class name, your name, professor's name, date, title, etc.
Below are the slides from Jan 20-24 classes that expand on how to help build up a research proposal for the first assignment.
CLARIFICATION NOTE on articulating methodology: Since this is a research PROPOSAL, and you haven't done the research yet. You should talk about the methodology in the future tense, something you WILL be doing, not the past tense:)
