How will you deliver your proposal?

Will your readers be

open to possible solutions or resistant to them?

Why will your solution work better than other

solutions?

How can you demonstrate your own authority and

credibility?

Instructors want to ensure that students' topics

are appropriate or manageable for the assignment.

Instructors want to ensure that students are

capable of writing topic proposals.

Instructors prefer grading topic proposals

rather than full-length proposals.

Instructors want to ensure that students

choose topics about which they themselves will care and want to read.

True

False

a good story

a response to anticipated questions

attention to patterns or themes

an interesting angle

careful, thorough research

brevity

appeals to readers' values

questioning, speculative tone

True

False

Evaluative annotations use a consistent

pattern.

Evaluative annotations provide source

information using one documentation style.

Evaluative annotations include relevant commentary

on each source.

Evaluative

annotations describe each source as carefully and objectively as possible.

save your proposed solution for the conclusion

begin your essay with an anecdote that relates

to the topic

include engaging details throughout your essay

begin by establishing that there is a problem

A review of literature gives publication

information for each source.

A review of literature shows how the sources

within a body of literature relate to one another.

A review of literature describes each source

as carefully and objectively as possible.

A

review of literature provides source information using one documentation style.

engaging details

consistent presentation

appeals to readers' values

a

questioning, speculative tone