Objectives: -To explore and decide on the type of field research most suitable to your project. - To think about the potential audience for your project, and begin thinking about how you will present your research to this audience. Background: Now that you have written literature review, you should have a better idea of the different conversations that are surrounding your research area. When you established your niche at the end of your literature review, you decided on the specific focus of your project. The purpose of revisiting your proposal through this assignment is for you to think about how you will gather your own data to contribute to the conversation that you have identified. Following the steps outlined in this assignment sheet, in addition to the reading you have done through the CITI training and Chapter 11 in your textbook, you will develop and conduct a study to further explore the niche you identified in your literature review. Remember that this is just a guide for how you might word your paper. Feel free to make adjustments as you see fit. In order to complete this assignment, follow these steps: 1) What question(s) have not been directly answered by your sources? Remember that the niche or gap that you will fill by asking your question may be just slightly different than the questions explored by your sources. Start by writing the heading “Methods” right after your lit review. Then, write a few sentences that discuss your specific question and explain how your question is different from the arguments that your sources have made. Example to get you started: “The question(s) I will explore through this project are....I developed these questions after reading _____ and _____, because....” Please be as specific as possible with your questions. Phrases like “success in general” or “general effects of....” are not specific. enough. Think of your niche. 2) After you have established your question(s) and following our readings and discussion on field research, decide what type of research will be most appropriate for your project. Your Task: PROPOSAL, PART II DRAFTING YOUR METHODS SECTION SPRING 2012 MARTINEZ Bring your proposal to your conference!