Do Not Start a New Post for Proposal+10.
Just Add 5 Sources to your Proposal+5.

Specific. Arguable. Researchable. Verifiable.

Don’t start from scratch. Open your A05: Proposal+5 post and add new sources in Edit.

Most likely your proposal will have changed since you first posted it, the original assignment, A05: Proposal+5. Take a moment to revise your Pitch, which by now has become your Hypothesis, to reflect your current thinking.

How Good is my Proposal/Hypothesis?

—Is it Specific?
If not, I’ll have a vague, meandering essay that tries to cover too broad a topic. Avoid survey proposals or proposals that offer to prove a claim everyone would endorse.

—Is it Arguable?
Hypotheses need to be clearly worded to establish the basis for argument, and they must identify a strong claim that is not universally accepted.

—Is it Researchable?
Hypotheses about people’s feelings are impossible to research persuasively. Wild speculations about the distant future are nearly useless. Form hypotheses that can be supported with research.

—Is it Verifiable?
Research is often inconclusive. Form a hypothesis that at least could be verified if the research supported it.

The 10 Sources

Don’t start from scratch. Just open your A05: Proposal+5 and add 5 new sources, with Background and How I Intend to Use It sections for each.

1. “Link the Title to the url for your Source”

Background: This section does not say, “The article is about memory.” Instead it identifies the specific findings or arguments of your source. It says, for example, “The article makes the case that our memories are not reliable. Instead of reinforcing a true memory, every time we recall a particular event, we reinterpret it to reinforce our current world view, therefore changing it into something new that other witnesses to the same event would dispute.”

How I Intend to Use It: This section does not say: “The article will provide me with useful background.” Instead it specifies the actual use to which you will put the source in support of an argument. It says, for example, “The source supports my position that memory is not static and the past is open to interpretation. We use memories to prove something about ourselves.”

Assignment Specifics

1. Do Not Start a New Post.
2. Open your A05: Proposal+5 and add sources in Edit.
3. Change your title to Proposal+10—Username.
4. The Category has been renamed A05: Proposal+10
5. Revise your Proposal to reflect your current thinking.
6. Identify and link to 5 new sources. Find academic sources if possible. If not, ask yourself: “Is the Hypothesis Researchable?”
7. You are never married to your sources. You may swap out old sources for new at this stage, and again when it’s time for your Annotated Bibliography.
8. This assignment will be renamed one more time, when it becomes you Annotated Bibliography and will contain 15 sources.
9. That Annotated Bibliography will go into your Portfolio, so this assignment is a Portfolio Assignment in progress.
10. There is no need to Post this assignment. It already exists as your proposal plus 5.
11. Edit your original post.
12. Change your title to Proposal+10—Username.
13. Click the Update button.

Grade Details

DUE MIDNIGHT SUN MAR 08
Customary late penalties. (0-24 hours 10%) (24-48 hours 20%) (48+ hours, 0 grade)
Portfolio Grade-in-progress.