6.4 Term Project – Revising and Submitting Your Project with Data Sources

Based on the feedback that you received from other students and from me, revise your original project proposal and submit a final version this week. Note that you may lose points if your proposal suggests that you haven't been developing your thinking about your project.

In your revised proposal, you should respond to as many of the comments made by your reviewers as possible. However, it is OK to stick to your guns! You don't have to adjust every aspect of the proposal to accommodate reviewer concerns, but you should consider every point seriously, not just ignore them.

Your final proposal should be between 600 and 800 words in length (about 1.5 ~ 2 pages double spaced max.). The maximum number of words you can use is 800. You will lose points if your word count exceeds 800. Make sure to include the same items as before:

• Topic, business question, and scope
• Aims
• Dataset(s)
• Data sources
• Intended analysis and outputs—This is a little different from before. It should list some specific outputs (ideally several specific items) that can be used to judge how well you have done in attaining your stated aims. Note that failing to produce one of the stated outputs will not result in an automatic loss of points, but you will be expected to comment on why you were unable to achieve everything you set out to do (even if that means simply admitting that some other aspect took longer than anticipated, so you didn't get to it).

Additional writing and formatting guidelines are provided in the document (TermProjectGuidelines.pdf) in 'Term Project Overview ' in Canvas.