Communication
The proposal should be 2 pages long, double spaced (1 page for the proposal and 1 page for the
bibliography). In your proposal, you should include the following details:
• Identify your project’s topic
• Offer a brief (2 or 3 sentences) background on your topic, providing the reader with any
information that they will need to understand your proposal
• Identify the problem or research question that your project will focus on
• Offer a brief (2 or 3 sentences) literature review, in which you summarize the research
that has already been done on this topic
• Explain how your project will build upon the existing research to help to solve the
problem or answer the research question you introduced earlier in the proposal
• Provide a bibliography (in APA format) that includes full citation information for at least
5 sources that you will use in your research