MA/MS Essay/Thesis Proposal
Name
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First Name
Last Name
Email
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example@example.com
What kind of final are you planning to do?
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Thesis and presentation (Plan A)
Essay and presentation (Plan B)
Exam
Proposed title
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Describe the broad topic you plan to conduct research on.
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Approximately one paragraph long
Concisely state the research question you plan to pursue.
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Approximately one paragraph long
Summarize reading you have already done on the broad topic as well as the specific research question described above.
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Approximately 2-3 paragraphs long. Provide full citations for all in-text citations.
Provide full citations for 5-10 additional papers you plan to read for this project that are not discussed above.
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This list need not be exhaustive with respect to the papers you will read for the project. You should think of these papers as a seed set from which to expand your full reading list by traversing the citation network that points into and out of this list.
Enumerate a list of milestones that culminate in the submission of your MA/MS essay and provide approximate dates for when those milestones will be completed.
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As a guide to the granularity with which you should specify milestones, this section should list approximately 5-10 milestones. The dates that you list in this section are intended to act as soft deadlines for yourself. We will not hold you to them, but you should try to hit them as closely as possible.
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