{"id":141,"date":"2019-11-14T12:43:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/navigatingsocialscience\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=141"},"modified":"2019-12-09T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:04:09","slug":"proposal-title-page","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/navigatingsocialscience\/chapter\/proposal-title-page\/","title":{"raw":"6.3 Title Page","rendered":"6.3 Title Page"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"import-Normal\">The first page of your research proposal is the title page and it includes a centered and double-spaced title that is about 10 to 12 words long and is located about half way down the page. Come up with a tentative or \u201cworking\u201d title that best describes what you anticipate finding or exploring in the proposed study. Choose a title that gives the reader a sense of the central topic and research question. For example, you might have noticed an increased presence of transgender and nonconforming lead characters in popular television series and may wish to examine whether this move beyond the traditional dualisms of gender and sexuality is also evident in advertisements shown on prime-time television. Your working title could be <em>Recent <\/em><em>C<\/em><em>hanges to <\/em><em>G<\/em><em>ender <\/em><em>R<\/em><em>epresentation in Television Commercials Shown During Prime Time<\/em>. If your eventual research indicates that little or nothing has changed over time, you can later modify the title to reflect this when you write up the findings in a more formal research report (see <a href=\"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/navigatingsocialscience\/chapter\/introduction-to-writing-a-research-report\/\">Chapter 7<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">The title page is an identification source for your work and it includes your name, your student ID number, the course name for which the proposal is assigned (or the instructor\u2019s name that the proposal will be turned in to), and the date the proposal is due. These items are usually located near the bottom of the title page, preferably on the right-hand side. If you refer to the \u201cHome\u201d tab in a word document, in the \u201cParagraph\u201d section, you can \u201cAlign Left\u201d and then highlight the text and click the tab key on your keyboard so that this section occupies the bottom right-hand corner of the page.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Title Page Checklist<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">\u274f Separate title page, numbered<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">\u274f Working title, centered, starting about half-way down the page<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">\u274f Several blank lines<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">\u274f Near the bottom of the page in the right-hand corner<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"import-Normal\">Author\u2019s name<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"import-Normal\">Student Identification number<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"import-Normal\">Course name and\/or instructor\u2019s name<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"import-Normal\">Date<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p class=\"import-Normal\">The first page of your research proposal is the title page and it includes a centered and double-spaced title that is about 10 to 12 words long and is located about half way down the page. 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