The goal must be very clearly stated. This is best done in its own paragraph, not hidden in the middle of one. You can talk about the evolution of your goal but make sure that the person reading your report is not hunting around trying to find the actual goal.

“Define” means to give the precise meaning of something so make sure the goal contains clarifying statements if anything is unclear.

Explain why this project is ‘highly challenging’ for you.

Explain why you chose this project. Where does your personal interest come from? Why is it important to you?

Talk about the global context in this part of your report. How does it guide your research and investigation in a meaningful way? Why did you choose to focus your report this way?

You need to be very detailed and specific about what you already know about every aspect of your proposed goal. Give examples to help. It needs to be clear that your idea stems from personal interest, but also that there is some room for growth in terms of your understanding of the topic.

In order to demonstrate research skills you need to:

- have a complete bibliography that shows you have used a wide variety of sources

- have in-text references where appropriate

- write a detailed evaluation of some of the sources you used (for example in OPVL format)

Evaluate Sources