Disciplinary/Professional Research Project
Disciplinary/Professional Research Project Components
Length: 1250-1500 words
Audience: your choice — discuss your primary, secondary, and tertiary audiences in your Project Proposal
- Library Database Workshop Wed. 4/21
- Preliminary project possibilities & questions: Wed. 4/21
- Project proposal: Mon. 4/26
- Project Draft: Mon. 5/3
- Disciplinary/Professional Research Report: Wed. 5/10
For this project, choose an academic discipline or professional area in order to analyze your field’s discourse conventions, research methodologies, citation styles, and other expectations:
- Interview two people in your chosen field — faculty, graduate students, or non-academic professionals — and collect information based on questions that we discuss collectively in class
- Research databases and publications in your chosen field and identify contemporary issues
- Compose a Research Project Report in which you synthesize your interviews and research, including a judicious range of primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
Reading in support of your project: Lunsford, Part 3: pp. 211-300, especially, early in your project, the sections on “Conducting Research” (222-248) and “Integrating Sources” (270-280).