This is a challenging assignment, but I am hoping you will have FUN with it!
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
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?