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Course essay

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on August 25, 2010 at 10:10:35 pm
 

Essay Guidelines

(Written papers are to be approximately 2500-3750 words)

 

Introduction

What is your research topic? Briefly describe the topic that you have in mind within the context of the broad field of curriculum studies and the experience of education.

 

Problem Statement

What is the problem that your research topic responds to? Research topics don't emerge from nothing. They arise out of a situation in which there is a need, a problem that must be solved. What needs, interests and prior knowledge form a foundation for your research topic? What connections will you make in this project with other topics you know or study? Conversely, what "big" question or questions do you have about this topic? What do you want to know; what important content and concepts will you learn? What knowledge, skills, strategies and attitudes do you expect to gain?

 

Objectives

What will be the results of your research? Your readers need to know what outcome they can expect. Sometimes a list is appropriate, especially if there are several outcomes. Be sure to show how your objectives will directly address the problems that you identified in the previous section. 

 

Literature Review

Is there sufficient literature for the research project? In your literature review, please define the research topic, comparing and contrasting how it is variously defined across the literature surveyed. Further, discuss how the topic is treated in the literature, i.e. what are the articles about, what are the educational and/or political perspectives of the articles, and so forth. 

 

Conclusions:  Discussion, Analysis, Synthesis

Show how your conclusions directly address the problems that you previously identified.  What is/are the problem(s) that your research responded to?  How have you addressed / solved this/these problem(s)? How have you answered the "big" question or questions about this topic? What do you know now; what important content and concepts have you learned?  What knowledge, skills, strategies and attitudes have you gained? What are the results / outcomes of your research? Discuss these fully.

 

Bibliography

Complete bibliography in a standard form such as MLA, Chicago or APA.

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