The paper that you hand in at the end of the Fall Practicum should be comparable to a research proposal that you would submit as part of a grant application. It should communicate clearly and in detail what you plan to do, why and how, and perhaps hint at what you expect to find.
Tips a. Integrate as well as revise .
Your research proposal should be more than simply your fall deliverables with a staple through them. You will have learned many interesting things in the course of the semester. However, they do not all belong in your research proposal. The proposal should be a clear and concise statement of a good research idea in the process of completion, not a complete documentation of all that you know, have learned, or have done. Look both backward and forward .