A Research Prospectus is a formal research proposal. You should design the Research Prospectus to convince readers you can complete the research. It should contain:
A title
A research statement or question
An overview of scholarly work already done around your topic; the background and context of your proposed research
A summary of your research methods or your approach to completing the research
The Honors College has specific guidelines for laying out your Research Prospectus. Please see link to the guidelines below.
Confronting the idea of writing a senior project can be daunting; therefore, it may be helpful for you to take a look at what earlier students in the Honors Program have written. You can find previous Honors Senior projects in the Marx Library. Try this keyword search in SOUTHcat:
dissertation? thes?s honors
Honors theses all start with the call number LD 10, so you can also do a call number search in SOUTHcat to get a list of titles:
Dissertations and theses in the Marx Library are all located in the Reference area on the 2nd Floor North, but they can be checked out like any other circulating book.
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Are you having trouble getting started? Below are some questions that may help get you started:
What is your research about?
What makes your topic worth researching?
What is your research design?
What kind of articles do you need?
What have you found so far, and where are the information gaps?
Stuck? The links below have a lot of information about what a research prospectus is, what it should include, and ways to lay one out.