3. STRUCTURE OF YOUR FINAL PROJECT
Preliminary Genre Analysis (including introduction)
Intro to annotated bib
Line of Inquiry paper
Paragraph describing your “gap”
Final Project discussion
Works Cited page (copy and paste the citations from your
annotated bib)
Sample:
http://issuu.com/lauramartinez6/docs/final_project_sample
4. GUIDELINES
Last section of inquiry paper
New heading: “The Gap,” “The Missing Piece,” “A New
Perspective”
Other possible headings: “Structure,” “Research Methods,” “Data
Collection,” “Presenting Evidence”
Think about what sections make sense for your own paper
5. TO DO:
Find additional articles using the databases
If you can’t find additional articles, then
you have an actual gap. How could you
design a study to fill it?
6. FINAL PROJECT: SETTING UP A STUDY
If you were to continue exploring the gap in your research, based on the articles
you’ve read in your field, what type of research would you need to include? Would
you need human participants? Textual analysis? What would be the best method for
gathering this data?
How would you need to organize and present your research? Use evidence from
the genres you’ve analyzed. How much evidence would you need to support your
claims? How would you present this evidence?
Who would you cite in your own article? As we’ve discussed in class, often times
researchers start their articles by providing an overview of the current conversation.
Who would you include in this overview, and why?
How would you structure your own article in this field? What sections would you
have? How would you organize them? Why would this organization be useful to you
and your readers?
7. FINAL PROJECT: CITING MORE ARTICLES
If you found articles to answer your gap, then you
can add a section after your inquiry paper that
says, “Filling the Gap,” or “Continuing the
Conversation.”
Have a brief introductory paragraph summarizing
that you have found, and then use headings to
discuss your sources. You can use the structure
that you used for your inquiry paper
(headings, generalizations, indirect quotes, direct
quotes)
