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Critical Analysis and Learning

Article- Re-imagining student success: Integrating strategy and action through an Indigenous lens by J. Fiona Peterson, Tania Ka'ai, Valance Smith, Kathryn McPherson

You have to relate with your life.

PROPOSAL ASSIGNMENT

Why are we writing proposals?
• Academic researchers use proposals in at least the following ways:
• as a step before conducting and disseminating research
• to secure funding and/or acceptance of a conference presentation or publication
• to clarify their aims and methods

• Student academic researchers:
• are sometimes asked for proposals for research papers or
• usually with the help of faculty, write proposals for funding or for presentations and publications
• Proposals are a lot like research paper introductions, so hopefully this will help you with those in your other classes.
What is involved?
• You are proposing a topic as if you were going to your own article, but you aren't. Put another way, you are writing an introduction much like the ones you have been analyzing.
• Topics must be related to post-secondary education
• Consult the handout called Table of articles, keywords, and possible topics
• You must use at least one article from the course readings to form your ek (what is known, ie what you have read and develop your kd out of).
• Then, you make a knowledge deficit to bridge into your nk (your own more precise topic that you research two new academic journal articles to explore in your proposal).

Features of the proposal:
-includes a title that captures your nutshell (a common way is to write something witty or catchy then a colon, then the nutshell...for example: Getting Jiggy with It: Designing active learning strategies using dance in university classrooms)
-presents features of your proposed research in order ek, kd, nk, why important
- uses reporting expressions and end citation in text as appropriate for APA format
- 600 words max (try to be as close to 600 as you can)
- you can use "I". Many professionals use "I" in their proposals

Introductory paragraph (about 150-200 words)
- nutshell (what your main topic is)
- existing knowledge
o must include the course article as your ek
o must use citation (either reporting expression or end citation)
o set up what is known about the key terms in your topic (you don't have to cover everything in the article's ek, only what you need to build a kd into your topic.)
- knowledge deficit(s)
o identify a knowledge deficit in the course article
o remember that knowledge deficits are commonly expansions, looking at something more, or differently, in a different context
o can use personal experience
o kd as a bridge between ek and nk
- new knowledge
o research question
o claim (answer that includes subtopics set up in the order they will come in the next paragraph(s))
o include end citations to show which of your 2 new sources are coming and in relation to which points
o ideally each subtopic will have info from more than one source
- why new knowledge is important (what your proposed research could contribute to whom)

Two Body Paragraphs (about 300-400 words total)

- each paragraph covers an aspect of the answer to the research question in the same order as you noted in the introductory paragraph
- includes a topic sentence (first sentence of each paragraph) that says the answerso your reader knows what is coming
- explains your answer, your new knowledge
o can use personal experience in addition to the articles
o contains paraphrased evidence from the new articles to show your answer
- why your new contribution is important and to whom

• References page in APA format
- the article from the course
- the 2 new academic peer-reviewed journal articles you found through research