Following are guidelines for doing Part I of Your Analytic Paper related to your Capstone Project:
1. Identify and write about a topic or issue directly connected to your placement site or related in some way to the mission or issues addressed by your placement site. In this part of your analytic paper, you should discuss (a) what the topic or issue is, (b) why you chose the topic or issue, i.e., why is it relevant
2. A. After determining the topic or issue, familiarize yourself with the “body of knowledge” related to the topic or issue to help you understand the topic or issue. In regard to the “body of knowledge,” you need use a variety of resources, not just one source (i.e., relevant books or articles, data from relevant pamphlets & documents, placement site literature, etc.). Here, you should discuss (a) what you found out about the topic or issue (i.e., prior information and data) as it relates to your placement site, and (d) how your proposed topic or issue and data analysis might add to prior information and data.
B. Secondly, you should develop a thesis statement. A thesis statement is the one sentence that describes what your entire Capstone Project is about. (a) Justify your thesis statement by clearly discussing what you speculated would be possible findings (hypotheses), based on the body of knowledge. (b) Relate your thesis statement to relevant theory.
3. Discuss your plan for (a) conducting research on your topic or issufkte, and (b) analyzing your findings.
