Week 7

By Midnight Monday, February 18th:

  • READ: White Paper Project Description.
  • READ The Thomson Handbook p. 234-235.
  • READ Example White Paper #1 (attached).
  • READ Example White Paper #2 (attached).
  • READ: White Paper on How to Write a White Paper
  • POST: Your individual 300-word proposal for a group White Paper topic. Your idea description should include specific ideas for how to approach the project, along with links to research websites, etc. Your description should focus also on audience; it is important that you identify who might be able to best employ the strategies that you propose. [The group proposal will be due next Monday.]
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    By Midnight Wednesday, February 20th:

  • POST: Response to at least two other White Paper topic ideas, indicating what you think of the idea, what you might add to the idea, how you might be of service if you were to work on the idea, etc.
  • READ Research Principles and Methodologies (attached).
  • READ Research Tools (attached).
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    By Midnight Friday, February 22nd:

  • FORM preliminary groups through your blog responses and feedback. By e-mail or through the blogs, you should "meet" to discuss project trajectory with your group.
  • READ Rhetoric of Proposals(attached).
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