Single Form – Paper- Project Proposal Due 10/15 by Noon

If you are proposing to submit an academic paper for your final project, please complete and submit the following form along with any relevant supplementary material by Friday, October 15th at noon.

  1. Identify what type of academic paper you’re hoping to submit:
    • An invited paper presentation talk
    • A longish conference paper
    • An academic book review or review essay
    • A chapter essay to be included in an edited collection of essays
    • A bibliographic essay or a scholarly key word essay
    • A peer-reviewed essays
    • Other _____________________________________
  2. Describe Intended Audience/Publication Home
    • Identify 2-3 possible venues (e.g. journals, specific conference panels, etc.) for your proposed paper project.
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    • Where possible, please include the name and link of a website with more information about the journal, conference, panel, cfp, etc.
    • You may also include a sentence or two about this venue that you think are worth highlighting (e.g. if the journal is interdisciplinary and tends to value a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods or if the conference panel is a featured Presidential Panel that will follow a special format).
  3. Paper Details:
    • Working Title of Proposed Paper___________________________________
    • Identify a primary and secondary question that your paper will explore:
      1. __________________________________________________________________________________
      2. __________________________________________________________________________________
    • Identify 3-5 Potential Keywords (used to make your work searchable within academic databases).
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      2. ___________________________
      3. ___________________________
      4. ___________________________
      5. ___________________________
  4. Why:
    • Please explain why an academic paper, specifically the type of academic paper you’ve chosen, is the best form to explore the texts, concepts, histories, and/or questions you intend to explore.
  5. Please Submit the Following Supplemental Material:
    • A 300-500 word abstract for your proposed paper project
    • An annotated bibliography of 3-5 sources other than the primary source texts (from the syllabus) that your paper project will engage. (Please keep your annotations between 2-4 sentences long.)

David Lewis

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