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Thesis Worksheet 1 Paper Topic

Integrative Seminar 2: Paper Topic Writing: Name: _______________________ Broadly, what topic or issue are you planning on working on? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What are some questions you are thinking about asking about this topic? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What are some methods, approaches, or types of research you are planning on using? (Try to be as specific as possible, even if you only discuss one approach): ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What are some ways you can relate this topic to Community Engagement and a Studio Project? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Write about your topic for ten minutes, trying out different arguments and counter-arguments, and considering different issues you could focus on: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fill out this working thesis (you will keep constantly changing and refining your specific thesis and argument throughout the semester) (Your final thesis will need to be far more interesting and persuasive than this, and should not follow this specific format, but this can be a starting point): In this paper I will discuss _____________________________________________________. I will argue that __________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ because/by__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.