Various Research Proposal Thoughts

My audience is the people who don't really know much about the Special Olympics. It has been brought up by many volunteers and supporters of the Special Olympics that many people view the Special Olympics as a nice event that happens every year but brush it off. Some of the criticisms that I received in class was that my introduction paragraph had too many numbers in it. Looking over it again, it seemed like I was just throwing facts and figures around, rather than setting the mood for the whole research proposal.

Just recently I found an organization to which I will propose my research, I chose the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation which provides funding for organizations like the Special Olympics. They have charity funds and fundraisers to benefit those who are mentally and physically disabled. During my research, I found that the Special Olympics community needed a jump-start, both in activism and awareness. I felt that by presenting my research to the JPF Foundation I could receive money to initiate an ad campaign to raise awareness of the Special Olympics community's efforts and to change the way that the Special Olympics World Games is presented, i.e. get it televised in the same way as the International Olympic Games.

During my conference I noticed that my Background section seemed long and disorganized, Grete suggested that I use subheadings in my background section to break up the content and organize the information, as well as provide an overview of the information. In my methods section I am going to include the various interviews that I would perform if I had the chance at different levels of the Special Olympics community and the United States Olympic Committee.

I am currently rewriting my paper and I will provide comments on how it turned out.