Sample Paragraph for your Paper Topic Proposal



GRAD CORE: Sample Paragraph for your Paper Topic Proposal + Rubric

In case you'd like a rough idea of what I'm looking for regarding the paragraph that's due Friday evening, here is what I had to submit to the teacher for the grad certificate class in Conflict Resolution that I took.  Email Jane your paper proposal as a Word document attached to an email. Send it no later than 9 PM Fri, Oct 29.

This is what I submitted to my grad certificate prof for my topic proposal:

For my final paper, I would like to analyze the parking conflict in Chantilly between the Pleasant Valley neighborhood and the Hindu temple. To be upfront, I live in the P.V. neighborhood, but my house is far from the affected area so my husband and I don't have strong views one way or the other about it. In fact, we suspect there is underlying prejudice involved on the part of the homeowners who live near the entrance closest to the temple. We've been following with interest the articles in the neighborhood newsletter, but I'd like to learn more about it, especially from the Hindu believers’ side too. They have some info posted on their website, for starters, and I know there have been newspaper articles about it as well as an online blog (I know that's not a scholarly resource though).

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(This is my professor’s response.)

The conflict you name sounds like a good case study. And in this instance blogs, newsletters, interviews and articles are good sources because what you are seeking is how people are thinking and feeling and behaving within the conflict. The scholarly sources can be the theories, frameworks and concepts used to help analyze and provide different angles to understanding the conflict. Parking, at Mason or in a neighborhood, is often a deceptively complex issue!

GRADE CORE: Grading Rubric for Paper Topic Proposal

DUE Friday, October 29, 2010 on or before 9 PM, Fri, Oct 29, 2010

1. Research Question: What issue or problem do you intend to analyze, examine, compare? Needs to be clear, right size focus, interesting, based on facts.

2. Interest and Relevance: Why do you care about this? How is it important to your academic field?

3. Potential Sources: List the title of the book, journal article, or Web site, etc. and the type of source (book, e-book, journal article, website, etc.).

*4. Grammar and Language: Agreement (subject-verb, singular/plural), verb tenses, subject and verb, no fragments, sentences neither too short nor too long. *5. Mechanics and Format: See details below.

| |A |B |C |NG |

|Research Question |-Clearly defined -Not: |1 criteria not met |2 criteria not met |3 or more criteria not met |

| |broad, narrow | | | |

| |-Challenging, interesting | | | |

| |-Grounded on facts | | | |

|Interest & Relevance |Clearly explained your interest |1 criteria not fully met |2 criteria not fully met |No mention of interest and |

| |or experience AND importance to | | |relevance (both not met at |

| |your field | | |all) |

|Potential Sources |3 (+) sources mentioned |2 sources mentioned |1 source mentioned |No sources mentioned |

|Grammar & Language Use|Grammar, sentences, and |Mostly accurate, clear, and |Many errors, inappropriate |Serious errors, lack of |

| |vocabulary are accurate, clear, |appropriate and meaning is |usage, or meaning is unclear|clarity, and inappropriate |

| |and appropriate for semi-formal |clear |at times |usage |

| |writing | | | |

|Mechanics & Format |-Correct spacing, spelling, |Mostly correct mechanics |Many errors with mechanics |Serious errors with |

| |punctuation, capitalization |Mostly correct format |Many errors with format |mechanics |

| |-1” margins x 4 12 point font| | |Serious errors with format |

| |Double spaced Letter size paper | | | |

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