Your research topic should emerge from your own individual curiosities. Questions that
spontaneously come to us in the course of our experiences are precisely the type of questions that
make for excellent research topics. As a first step in determining your research topic, I suggest
you make a list of researchable questions as they arise for you. A critical part of development as
a scholar is knowledge development through investigation and research. This research practicum
paper targets the development of students’ research skills with these specific goals: (1) to provide
research/investigation experience through participation in efforts personal to them; (2) to involve
students in doing research early in their academic career (3) to increase students’
/investigation/research skills; and (4) to develop skills in writing for possible publication.
This paper should be 8 – 9 pages (not including references & cover page) and incorporate at least
2-3 assigned readings which must be referenced, plus 3 additional references to scholarly journal
articles, scholarly books, and/or other academic sources. In addition, you must have talked with
two individuals connected with your topic, and those conversations must be referenced in your
paper.
