Public Issue Project: Proposal

Please write at least one page single-space explaining the following:

  1. Topic/Focus: The broad issue you wish to focus on, and the specific angle (or angles) you think you might take.
  2. Personal Interest/Purpose: Why are you interested in this issue? What might you want to show for others?
  3. Stakeholders: Who is affected an interested in this issue in society?
  4. Audience/Context:To whom might you address your argument? In what context?
  5. Research Approaches: What avenues might you use for research? (Consider the many types of sources available online, in the library, in the library's databases, and through primary research.)
  6. Planning: How will you go about researching and writing on this topic?