QUARTER-LONG PROJECT
Week 6: Revising Your Project Proposal
Based on the comments you received from other students and from me, revise your original project proposal and submit a final version this week. Timely submission of your revised project is worth up to 6 of the 30 total points available for the quarter-long project. Note that you may lose points if your proposal suggests that you haven't been developing your thinking about your project.
In your revised proposal you should try to respond to as many of the comments made by your reviewers as possible. However, it is OK to stick to your guns! You don't have to adjust every aspect of the proposal to accommodate reveiwer concerns, but you should consider every point seriously, not just ignore them.
Your final proposal should be between 600 and 800 words in length and should include the same items as before:
- Topic and scope
- Aims
- Data
- Data sources
- Intended analysis and outputs -- This is a little different from before. It should list some specific outputs (ideally several specific items) that can be used to judge how well you have done in attaining your stated aims. Note that failing to produce one of the stated outputs will not result in an automatic loss of points, but you will be expected to comment on why you were unable to achieve everything you set out to do (even if that means simply admitting that some other aspect took longer than anticipated, so you didn't get to it).
Post
your revised (final) project proposal to your web site,
as part of the "Quarter-long Project" section of your site. Use the course email system to notify the instructor
that you have done this including a URL.
Questions?
If you have any questions now or at any point during this project, please feel free to post them to the Quarter-long Project Discussion Forum. (That Discussion Forum can be accessed at any time by clicking on the In Touch tab, above, and then scrolling down to the Discussion Forums section.)