When writing the Research proposal I first read through the assignment prompt in the syllabus to see what I needed to include in the proposal. Next I jotted down a basic outline, or order in which I wanted to address the different requirements so that I would remember to make a logical order for my proposal. After I was finished I looked through the requirements one more time to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything. I think this worked pretty well for me in that the peer reviews stated, and in my own opinion, the draft ended up looking pretty good. I think it gave a good feeling of my enthusiasm for the project as well as giving the audience a basic idea of what's to come which is what I think of as the purpose for a research proposal. If I had more time I might have put more information from my research in there but I really don't think it neccesary as it's is a research "proposal" which implies pre-research. I think that the whole establishing a structure works extremely well and it's not something I employed much before this. It's not only useful when actually writing. I used it in deciding what steps I should take in my research. I made an outline of what it was that I specifically needed to research to accomplish my projects goals.
As for my next project, the Annotated Bibliography. One thing I'm going to need to do for that is run through the MLA citations and make sure I've got all those squared away. Also I think I'll want to organize them into a specific order based on what I used them for.
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Sounds like you know what your doing. Outlining is a great way to keep things organized and it will be extremely helpful when writing the final research paper. Keep up the good work.
That seems to be a very reliable resource.
I know how you feel with having to run back through all of the MLA citations. I think some of mine are incorrect as well, and will have to check them all.
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