Students will write a research proposal outline that includes an annotated bibliography about any issue related to world politics. I encourage students to choose a very narrow research topic. The outline and annotated bibliography should be between 600 and 800 words.
The outline must be written in full paragraphs, not point form.
The outline will include the following:
•Research question
(a thesis statement is not needed in the outline)
•
A background of the topic (one paragraph)
•
Two to four key arguments
•
A description of the theoretical framework which you will be using to write your paper and why you have chosen this framework (i.e. Liberalism, Realism, Marxism, Feminism etc.) (one paragraph)
•An annotated bibliography of eight
academic sources that you have gathered from the Carleton library (APA format)
Students must submit an outline and receive approval for their topic from the teaching assistant or
myself before submitting their final research paper.
Research paper outlines must be submitted on
Brightspace
on Wednesday, May 15th,
before noon
. Late
assignments will be penalized one
–
third of a letter grade per day
(e.g., a B paper handed in two days late
would be reduced to a C+)
.