Students will submit a proposal for a research paper on a topic of their choosing relating to an Information Operations (IO) or Information Warfare (IW) subject approved by the professor.
This assignment is to write a one page proposal for the research paper to include the following:
a) name
b) course title
c) date
d) working title
e) a brief summary of the proposed paper topic
f) research question(s) the student plans to answer in the paper
g) a preliminary thesis, i.e. a tentative answer to the research questions(s)
The thesis statement (or hypothesis) is usually no more than a sentence or two long. It clearly delineates the argument that is presented in your work and is usually found at the end of the first paragraph of a paper. The thesis statement says what the author is trying to prove in the document.