The early draft of your proposal is due on Feb. 19th  If you have questions or would like additional support, you should make a point to meet with me before this to discuss the direction your research is taking and the documents you will be addressing with your analysis.

For the early draft you should have a list of preliminary documents you have collected from a professional in your field, some preliminary analysis of those documents, and information you gained from an interview you conducted with a writer in that field.

Also include the following:

A description of the kind of work produced (or the work you anticipate producing) in your field. This should include both the kinds of documents generated, as well as the purpose of and audience for those documents.

A description of the language acceptable in at least one kind of document. This is where your preliminary analysis comes into play.

A preliminary account of the style that is deemed most appropriate for your field and a discussion of how outside sources (if used) and research are cited within texts produced within your field.

A prediction or account of other information you plan to include in your research.

Keep in mind:
The amount of research and analysis you do for this project will, obviously, represent far more than 8-10 pages, but the bulk of your research will be covered in your journals anyway. Your paper will provide an analysis of the language, a synthesis of the information you discover, and a few examples for illustration.

The "final" draft of this research proposal (with a tentative outline) is due on Feb. 21st.