Sample Research Proposal Evaluaiton

Brown builds his topic by finding an interesting research area, which in his case is neuroplasticity in humans. He narrows it further by limiting his paper to the changes that occur with neuroplasticity. To create his actual topic, Brown also focuses his ideas to how neuroplasticity affects the psyche. He wants to prove in his paper that brains can change over time, particularly in the absence of some form of stimuli. He tries to build a frame and case, where “Mind’s Eye” is the frame and the other two major readings, “The Eyes of the Skin” and “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It was Friday”. Then he will use his last two sources, “The Occipital Cortex in the Blind: Lessons about Plasticity and Vision” and “Adult Deafness Induces Somatosensory Conversion of Ferret Auditory Cortex” to provide actual evidence for his topic.

Sample Research Proposal Evaluaiton

I think the research proposal defines a good topic with a narrow enough field to study that he won`t spend the entire paper narrowing down the topic, but with enough complexity and breath to give himself some room to work with the topic and create an interesting paper out of it. The objective of the paper is to explore how the brain adapts to changes in information input, such as losing one of the senses it relies on to gather information about the outside world. The proposal also says it might discuss on the changes in the networks of the brain to account for those sensory loses affects the 'pysche' of the individual effected. Some of the sources are essays from the New Humanities Reader, although the author found other sources to back up what was discussed in those essays from scientific journals and expand on ideas and thoughts found in there that will help to support the thesis of the essay and provide more facts, figures and data to support and develop his argument.