Assignment: Developing an Area of Focus

Assignment: Developing an Area of Focus
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Assignment: Developing an Area of Focus

Assignment 3: Developing an Area of Focus
For the final project of this course, you will write a grant-proposal paper to secure funding for your proposed action-research project.

For this assignment, identify an area of emphasis for your action-research project. Then, respond to the following:

Explain the scope of the project. For example, is it designed to better the situation of an individual, a workplace, or society as a whole?
Provide a preliminary assessment of the needs that this project hopes to address, citing relevant research on the topic, issue, or community in question.
Describe three ways in which your existing knowledge and skill sets have prepared you to tackle this project.
Write a 3–4 page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

By Wednesday, February 22, 2017, deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.