PROJECT PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES DESCRIPTION FOR THE M.A. PROJECT PROPOSAL IN ENGLISH

PURPOSE:

            The following policies and procedures are intended to assure high quality in the project as well as to clarify the responsibilities and requirements of those involved: the student, the project director, the reader, and the members of the Graduate Studies Committee.

THE PROJECT DIRECTOR:

• The director must be a full-time professor in the Department of English, comparative Literature, and Linguistics, unless the Graduate Adviser has approved another CSUF full-time faculty member
• The director should be a professor whose studies and interests qualify him or her for involvement in the project. 
• The student is responsible for finding the director and for receiving his/her approval of the project proposal.
• The project director will:  
• Read drafts of the project proposal
• Make suggestions for appropriate revisions and corrections
• When the project proposal is ready for submission to the Graduate Studies Committee, signs the cover sheet
• Regularly consult with the project writing course instructor

Additional Committee Members:

·        After consultation with the project director and the graduate adviser, the student may add additional members to his/her project committee

·        Any additional project committee members must approve the proposal prior to submission to the Graduate Studies Committee

THE PROJECT PROPOSAL:

• All project proposals must have a signed cover sheet provided by the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics. 
• A successful project proposal will include:
• A clear understanding of the direction that the project will take
• A convincing and sustainable approach or argument
• An outline or summation of the sections/chapters of the project
• A survey of scholarship or a bibliography when appropriate
• An understanding of the methodology that the student intends to use 

• Students will submit five copies of the project proposal to the graduate secretary.
• The Graduate Studies Committee will then review the project proposal.
• If the project proposal is not approved, the Graduate Studies Committee will consult with the project director. 
• The director will then make suggestions for revision. 
• After revising the project proposal the student may resubmit it to the project committee for approval and then to the Graduate Studies Committee.
• Resubmitted proposals must include an updated cover sheet.
• Proposals may be resubmitted once during a semester 
• If the revised project proposal is not approved by the Graduate Studies Committee, the student may, after revision and consultation with the project director, resubmit the project proposal the following semester.

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