What is a research plan? How do you put one together? The last section of today's class will be focused on creating reasonable research game-plans to lead you through the project.
On the Research Plan page that you just created, begin by answering these questions:
Do you have a research plan?
Have you created one before?
What kind of things should be included in a research plan?
Then, using the sample on pp376 and our class Assignment Schedule, create your Research Plan and post it to this page!
Finally, in pairs, assess your Research Plans. Are they dated? Are they expressing measurable goals and outcomes? Are they specific?
Sample Research Plan:
Analyze Rhetorical Situation (audience, purpose, genre, research question/stance, design)--ASAP--3-16-2012
Choose possible topic: Done
Do preliminary research--complete while analyzing rhetorical situation--ASAP 3-16-2012
Refine research question: 3-17-2012
Schedule interviews and do field research: 3-21-2012
Find and read library and Web sources, add to Annotated Works Cited Page--complete consistently while completing other steps, but should be largely done by: 4-1-2012
Do field research: 4-1-2012
Come up with tentative thesis and outline: 4-5-2012
