{"id":24,"date":"2017-01-15T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/325\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:35:54","slug":"project-proposal-and-outline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/325\/project\/project-proposal-and-outline\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Proposal and Outline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RESEARCH PROPOSAL PLUS\u00a0<em>ANNOTATED<\/em> BIBLIOGRAPHY, \u00a0PUBLISHED AS BLOG POST ON YOUR GROUP&#8217;S WORDPRESS SITE<br \/>\nDue September 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your research proposal should be the equivalent of a two-to-three page discussion of the major topics your group\u2019s project WordPress site and documentary will cover. It should mention your artifact\u2019s antecedents, invention, possible alternatives, and its interaction with American society and culture. It should also describe the basic structure for your project WordPress site and for your documentary. It should discuss any ways that you foresee using AI in the creation of the site and the documentary.\u00a0 Mention what digital tools in general you\u2019ll be using to create the documentary. \u00a0Finally, your group should indicate why it chose this particular technology to study.<\/p>\n<p>Your annotated bibliography should include both primary and secondary sources. You should have at least 15 sources, of which at least seven must be peer-reviewed scholarly sources (generally books or scholarly journals). \u00a0It should be clear that your group has done some serious scouting of material for your project and that the group will have enough to write the research-based content. \u00a0\u00a0Each source must have a 1-2 sentence annotation, explaining its relevance to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Bibliographic citations should be done using the standardized format for historians. Use the 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomanualofstyle.org\/tools_citationguide.html\"><em>The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/zotero.org\">Zotero<\/a> using the CMS style formatting for Notes and Bibliography.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions please contact me before the proposal is due.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROJECT OUTLINES DUE October 16, POSTED TO YOUR PROJECT BLOG. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This could be two separate posts on your blog, covering the plan for the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the research site: skeleton outline (what pages will be used, what material on what page, any timeline\/map), list of media (images, videos, etc.), and a key (iconic) image of the technology being studied (with citation for that image). [The iconic image will be used on the course website as the entry to your group\u2019s project.]\u00a0 Any images\/information created with AI should be identified here, including sources\/prompts.<\/li>\n<li>For the documentary short: storyboards\/detailed outline of what will go in the documentary and progress toward that end. Any plans to generate\/create with AI must be identified as such here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In separate form (ask Dr. McClurken) submit your mid-semester group evaluation by October 16 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESEARCH PROPOSAL PLUS\u00a0ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, \u00a0PUBLISHED AS BLOG POST ON YOUR GROUP&#8217;S WORDPRESS SITE Due September 25 Your research proposal should be the equivalent of a two-to-three page discussion of the major topics your group\u2019s project WordPress site and documentary will cover. 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