Project Proposal

After completing your source analysis, your group needs to come back together and check in with each other.

• Do a before and after analysis -- are you thinking the same way about your project idea after your source analysis than you were before? If so, discuss this.
• Did you have to do additional research in order to do the source analysis? If so, catch your group up on this.
• After an in-depth thinking/writing about your sources, what are the most important things for you about the final project? That is, what do you want to explain/understand/do/accomplish? Make sure each group member articulates her/her desires for the group.
• Based on this discussion, choose a final project option.

The project proposal ( 2- 3 pages, typed, double-spaced) needs to map out the final project.

• Overview Provide a 1 - 2 paragraph explanation of your final project. Describe what you will do, why you want to do this, and how you will do it.
• Components and Methodology Provide a 2 page summary of the components/section of the project. Explain:
  • Who will benefit from this project -- why is it need and who/how will it help?
  • What resources/ materials will you need for this project? (Example: do you need to schedule interviews with people in decision making roles in the organizations related to your project idea? Do you need help from me, Jeremy, anybody else?)
  • How will you share or demonstrate the results of your project with the people you need in order to implement this project? (Examples: reporting to peers, faculty, parents, community organizations, city/county officials, managers/directors of the key organizations; local readio report; article in the local or school newspaper; pamphlet for distribution; presentation or performance; web page)
  • Explain each group members responsibilities (including research to conduct, interviews to schedule, writing to complete)
• Timeline The Final Projects are due July 18th. Schedule dates for completing a draft, obtaining a peer review, editing, revising, further research, and final proof reading/editing.