Paper Outline: Make a one-page plan with bullet points from your brainstorming ideas and submit for instructor’s approval before starting to write the research paper Outline Due Date: Week 2, by Sunday, Paper Content: A desсrіption of a CURRENT (within last 12 months) topic or development in your field and an explanation of its significance to those outside of the field. Students will choose a topic from the list of Research Topics provided by the instructor. Paper Length: 2-3 pages (not including cover page, abstract, or annotated bibliography) Paper #1 Deadline: Week 3, by Sunday Paper Grade: If revision is not turned in, you will get the grade granted the first time GUIDELINES: There are two basic tasks to fulfill in this paper: To describe this topic or development as clearly and concisely as possible for the specific audience; in other words, to educate your audience about this topic a thoroughly as possible given the space constraints. To make a compelling, specific, and explicit case explaining obvious and not-so-obvious reasons this development is important to the world outside your major. It may help you to think in term of a little role-playing to imagine how this assignment might match real-world expectations: You are doing research or making something closely related to this topic Your company, department, or division needs funds to begin your research or project. To be awarded these funds, you need to go in front of a group of people and provide them some necessary background as they make their Keep in mind: We need to understand and be responsible for the terminology we use given the audience for whom we write. This means that you need to decide for yourself how much members of the specified audience already now about the topic and its terminology, and how much those student doesn’t know. This will help you in turn decide what kind of vocabulary, detail, and tone will be appropriate for your writing. You will also need to decide what kind of research is appropriate for the paper. Many of you will rely heavily on popular sources for this paper though scholarly sources will be helpful or necessary in certain cases. In-text citations and references page in the citation style of your choice is required. That references page should include a variety of source material, so that your reader will understand that you are not simply repeating one or two sources without considering audience and purpose. You will receive a provisional grade on this paper. If you choose to revise the paper, that provisional grade will be entirely replaced by the final grade.