Morden history:

Research project proposal Order Description Morden history: Research project proposal Due: Thursday, 1 September, 2016 by 5 pm Worth: 15% Word length: 1200 words Write a 1200-word proposal for your Research Project. Look now at the instructions for the Research Project (assessment task 4). Your proposal should include the following components under appropriate headings: 1. A prospective title for your research project (it does not matter if the title changes as the project proceeds): titles are important, they signpost the argument or contents of an essay. 2. The research question that you have devised. Note that this must be a question, not a vague topic, because your eventual project will be marked according to the question you have designed. 3. Discussion of how you will approach the project, explaining what sources you will use and why they are useful as well as what issues you will focus on and why these are significant (this section will come to around 800-1000 words). Include short answers to the following questions: a) What is my topic about (include period & place but also specific historical field, such as ‘media history’ or ‘political history’)? b) What are my main sources (are they accessible and why are they useful)? c) Who are the major historians working in my field (and when did their work appear)? d) What other concepts will I need to understand in order to explore this topic properly (e.g. gender, race, national identity) 4. An annotated bibliography of five of the most relevant secondary sources for researching your project. (Your final research essay will of course require more than five sources! This section will come to around 200-400 words.) If you are not sure about what an annotated bibliography is, have a look at the following website: https://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/pdf/anno_bib.pdf) This assessment task is an important scaffold for the larger Research Project. It assesses your ability to select a research area, refine a research question, and identify appropriate forms and sources of evidence for your research question.