You must find a news or journal article that is evidence that the problem or issue you wish to study is something current and of concern.
Please download and use this template. (Save it per the video "How to Save and Submit Assignments, in two formats. Submit the file from your computer.)
You MUST have a total of two proposals entered on this template.
Notice this is an actual bad thing. Problems are things that are not good
EXAMPLE PROPOSAL:
1) A problem I want to find ways to solve/mitigate: Depression among college students.
2) How do I know it is a problem? I read an article about this in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/us/covid-college-mental-health-suicide.html
3) Who is impacted by this problem? College students, parents, college faculty, college deans
4) My Proposed Research Question: What have researchers learned about the causes of depression among college students, and how to mitigate these causes?
MY Proposal 1:
1) A problem I want to find ways to solve/mitigate:
2) How do I know it is a problem? (link to article you read, or website you visited)
3) Who is impacted by this problem?
4) My Proposed Research Question: What have researchers learned about __________
________ (fill in the blank)__________ and ways to mitigate or solve this problem?
MY Proposal 2:
1) A problem I want to find ways to solve/mitigate:
2) How do I know it is a problem? (link to article you read, or website you visited)
3) Who is impacted by this problem?
4) My Proposed Research Question: What have researchers learned about __________
________ (fill in the blank)__________ and ways to mitigate or solve this problem?
See page two, below!
Some options for your proposals:
What have researchers learned about the…
Effect(s) of x (variable 1) on y (variable 2) among z (population)
and how to solve or mitigate these effects?
What have researchers learned about the…
Impact(s) of x on y among z (population)
and how to solve or mitigate these impacts?
What have researchers learned about the…
Contributing factors/causes of x and y on z (population)
and how to solve or mitigate these factors?
What have researchers learned about the…
Prevalence of x (the problem) in y (the location/industry etc.)
and how to mitigate this prevalence?