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Research Proposal

The research paper proposal is an opportunity to get feedback on your ideas, sources and structure for your research paper. See the description of the research paper (below) for further guidelines. The paper proposal is a 3 – 4 page document (plus bibliography) that includes:

• Your draft thesis (argument) and introduction
• A bullet point outline of your paper
  • What are your main sections?
  • What sources will you use for each part?
  • Approximately how long will each part be?
  • What are the topic sentences/sub-arguments for each section?
• Problems you expect to encounter (trouble finding sources, too much information, time management) and how you might address them
• An annotated bibliography of at least 8 sources of which at least 6 must be academic (peer reviewed journal articles, books or book chapters from books published by university presses). The annotation is 2-4 sentences explaining the type of source and what you expect it to contribute to your paper.

You will be evaluated based on the extent to which you meet these criteria. Further details of the assignment will be discussed in class. You will not be held to your outline (ie if your research paper is slightly different this is okay, papers evolve as we work on them), but it is a valuable opportunity to get feedback towards a strong paper.

Research Paper

The research paper is a 10 page (double-spaced 12 pt Times New Roman, excluding reference list/bibliography).

For your research paper you will examine the way in which a particular human rights story, person or event is or is not represented through a monument in the city of Winnipeg.

You have two choices:

• Choose a monument in the city of Winnipeg and analyze how it represents a human rights story
• Make a case for the most important human rights monument that Winnipeg is missing (who or what is not represented and should be?)

This is an argument-centred paper – you must present an argument about the representation you are analyzing or proposing (for example its contribution to human rights history, its accuracy or omissions in representation, etc.)

Suggested Structure

• 1) Introduction: What is the area you will address? What is your argument?
• 2) Background: What is the topic, event, issue or individual? How is this an important human rights story?
  • Be sure to use academic literature to support and inform your background section
• 3) Monument Description: How is this issue represented through a monument? (or What is currently missing? How you propose this issue, topic, event or individual be represented?

Tips on describing monuments:

• • Where is it, What is it, When it was made, (for existing monuments – is there any text) ?

• • What does the location, form, size, etc. of the monument suggest about the importance or prominence of this person/issue? If there is more than one person, is there anything suggesting power relationships between them?
  • What is the context of this monument?
  • Who do you think the audience is meant to be?

• 4) Analysis: How does this monument / proposed monument represent human rights history in Canada?

Key questions:

• • What is the historical event / who is the historical character? (draw on academic literature)
  • How does this person/these events relate to human rights in Canada?
  • What rights are represented directly or indirectly by this monument?
  • Whose story is this monument telling?
  • Whose story is it not telling?

• 5) Proposed Changes / Contextualization:

• • Text for Plaque: Write a 200 words text in your own words for a plaque to accompany this monument. Your text should reflect your argument. If you are analyzing an existing monument, your monument may or may already have a plaque (in reality), this is your opportunity to present different information.

• • Conclusion: What is the key message of your paper? Are there any next steps you would recommend? (for existing monuments) Are there any barriers to your proposal (for proposed monuments).
  • Papers must include a cover page (title, your name, course number, my name, date submitted), bibliography on a separate page. Use Chicago Manual of Style author-date citations for the research paper and all written assignments in this course. Papers must be typed, double-spaced, with regular margins, use 12-pt. Times New Roman and have numbered pages. Papers should be written in formal academic English (no contractions (ie it’s, isn’t, can’t, don’t)) with attention paid to correct grammar.
  • I WANT THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL WITHIN 23 HOURS OTHERWISE FOR THE FINAL RESEARCH PAPER YOU CAN TAKE 3-4 DAYS!!!!!