CANADA’S FIRST NATIONS
The Proposal (March 4): This assignment introduces your plan for a following research paper relevant to the topic of truth and reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations. Your proposal will offer a brief introduction to the hypothesis that you plan to research and write about in your paper. Consider what we talked about in class about abstractions, especially prestige abstractions, and how they can give us a lens through which we can approach ideas and analysis. What is some key idea that you find, for example, in some of the resources we have looked at that may also be relevant in another discipline, or to another area of life? Consider what question you have about that idea and formulate a hypothesis as a secured and structured answer to that question. [unique_solution]Your proposal will execute three key functions by providing an introduction, wherein you clarify the topic that you propose for your paper and present your thesis on that topic; an outline, wherein you introduce the key ideas and secondary sources you plan to use in support of your thesis; and a proposed conclusion: the outcome you posit from your research. Please note that your proposal is due on March 4 in order to ensure you start gathering sources and considering contexts with plenty of advance time before the first essay due date of March 25. In the proposal, use complete paragraphs and ideas and strive to provide a convincing argument for the relevance of your paper, without being overly dramatic or subjective. Consider the rhetorical devices that we have discussed in class and work to include a particular mode of theory or field of study in your work. What tradition of inquiry does your work fall into? Perhaps you use a gender studies or feminist approach, or you choose to use a post-colonial or even environmental studies approach. What key terms and ideas are significant to these traditions and what do they mean in the context of your own research? Your proposal should introduce these traditions and clarify key abstractions. Your primary task in this proposal is to apply such a rhetorical filter to your source material and make the case for a program of study that leads to a clear thesis about a key idea from or inspired that material, or about its potential role to either its readership or the subjects of its focus. Your proposal must include at least two external sources in addition to Tanya Talaga’s book All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward and, with a separate Works Cited page, should properly cite both the primary source text and the secondary sources in MLA format. I will evaluate the proposal and return it with a grade and with my feedback for ensuring that your research paper ENGL100C W20 functions effectively. In order to make the best use of your time, I strongly recommend working on your first draft of the paper, based on the proposal that you submit, before getting your graded proposal back. **one of the source has to be from the book ′all our relations′ by tanya talaga