User:Leejohnson898/Proposed Topics

Assignment: Identifying Your Topic

Due Date: Monday, September 26, 2011

Choosing your topic is the earliest decision you need to make for this project. Although you will eventually focus in on one topic, you must provide multiple possible topics to start. Potential topics can be drawn from course readings, news postings, outside lectures, and your own and other students’ power point presentations. In addition, you may have encountered potential topics through prior course work or internship work. One of these topics will become your final topic and your rankings (see instructions below) may be used to form groups of two based on common interest. (If you know you want to work with a particular class member, you could submit the topic proposals jointly, indicating how you might split up the work.) Finally, note that highly trafficked or extremely controversial pages (for example the article on Microcredit) may be quickly revised by others. Consequently, it is recommended that you avoid such pages.

Instructions:

1) Prepare a list of two to three potential topics.

2) For each topic, supply a few sentences to explain your interest and possible revisions to articles on Wikipedia

3) Give at least 5 relevant references for each topic

4) Rank the topics in order from most to least desirable