Overview
Research Log: Submit the draft of the narrative description of your research log thus far. This research log is ongoing and it is going to be unfinished at this point. That is okay, the purpose of this submission is to ensure that the research process is at least getting started! This section should: 1. Provide a detailed narrative of the steps you have taken to research your topic. 2. This should include successes as well as failures. Which websites, meetings, or discussions helped you move forward with your research and which of them came up fruitless.
Draft of research findings: This is the most formal section of the paper. It should include 1. Identification of your 3 main sources you will utilize to help address your research question. 2. Illustrate what experts in the field have noted in regards to your question. What methods did they use to attempt to answer similar questions. What are some of their policy implications or suggestions? 3. What are the main findings from the experts research and do they tend to agree or disagree with one another?
Minimum 2.5 pages MLA format for the draft and about half a page to 3/4 of a page for the research log all in MLA format.
This is the question research needs to be done on: “How did the New Deal impact unemployment and industrial production in industries like manufacturing and agriculture, and how did it affect demographic groups like African Americans, women, and rural workers during the Great Depression?”