Paper 1 Issue Proposal

Please see attached  work sheet for proposal topic and notes


English 1302: Rhetoric and Composition II

 

The Rhetorical Situation     

Any academic or public policy research project begins by identifying an issue, which is simply an unsettled question that matters to a community. In the proposal stage of a project, a writer takes stock of their current knowledge of and position on an issue and develops a research plan. A well-constructed issue proposal serves as a blueprint for the project as a whole and helps define a feasible scope for the project.

Your audience for this paper will be your classmates and I. The content will consist of a proposal for a research project that will span the entire semester.

 

Brainstorming and Drafting

  • You first need to choose an issue that will hold your interest for a full semester and will sustain semester-long research. To come up with such an issue, do some brainstorming on the following questions:
  • What do I enjoy reading about most?
  • What do I know the most about?
  • What am I most curious about?
  • What do I enjoy arguing about most?
  • What issues in my community do I care about most?

 

Once you choose an issue, you wont be able to change your mind later because all the writing assignments in this course build on one another. In other words, choose wisely!

  • Before you start drafting, apply the Twelve Tests of an Arguable Issue. If you cant answer yes to all twelve questions, change or modify your issue until you can.
  • Now youre ready to start drafting. Start by constructing a comprehensive overview of what you know about the issue already. As you go, explain how you acquired the knowledge you possess by tracing it back to its sources in as much detail as possible.

If you conduct a thorough inventory of your current knowledge, you should generate at least one or two pages of content in this section.

  • Your most important goal in this paper is to construct a specific research plan that will guide your activities throughout the semester. To begin, draft the specific research questions you hope to answer in your final project. (Obviously your research questions might change as you learn more about your issue, but your current questions will get you started.)

Next, draft answers to your current research questions. Your answers will be highly speculative at this point, but they will help build the framework for your research. You should produce at least a page of content in this section.

  • Next, describe where you will look to find answers to your research questions. Be specific! Name specific authors, books, periodicals, websites, databases, etc.

You should produce at least a half page of content in this section.

  • Describe specific audiences that you hope to target with your final project, and identify potential publication venues through which you will reach those audiences.

Also, describe the sorts of people you expect to position as allies and those you expect to position as opponents.

You should produce at least a half page of content in this section.

 

Putting It All Together

As you prepare a draft that youll share with readers, begin with an introduction (which need not be limited to a single paragraph) that accomplishes three goals:

  • acknowledges what they say (see Ch. 1)
  • provides an I say (see Ch. 4)
  • answers the so what? and who cares? questions (see Ch. 7)

For this paper, the they say is not a view youre agreeing with or disagreeing with. Rather, its simply the conversation surrounding the issue youve selected. Begin by summarizing that conversation.

Your I say will not be a conventional thesis statement because youre not ready to support a firm position. Instead, your I say will simply be a preview of the different parts of this initial proposal.

The answer to the who cares? question is you, your classmates, and I. To answer the so what? question, explain to us why your issue is important to the stakeholders it concerns and why it is complex enough to sustain semester-long research.

Once you have an introduction in place, feel free to arrange the content youve drafted in whatever way is most effective. In most cases it will make sense simply to organize the proposal in the sequence laid out in the Brainstorming and Drafting section.

 

Choosing an Appropriate Style

You style should be informal yet clear, retaining your own voice but making accommodations for the rest of us (see Ch. 9).

I do insist that you use paragraphs, simply because they make things easier on readers. A strong paragraph usually includes a clear topic sentence that is supported by sentences that cluster around it without going off on tangents.

You dont need to adhere strictly to Standard English, but dont be sloppy. Proofread carefully to ensure that your paper reads the way you want it to and that youve corrected unintentional errors. The Purdue OWL website (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/) is a terrific resource for information on standard writing conventions.

 

Specs

Your paper should be a minimum of two pages but no longer than five pages, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins all the way around.


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