Outline/Design/Plan

Due: March 7

I admit, sometimes you can do a project without planning it in advance. I even work that way myself sometimes because I don't mind wasting time and winding up in dead ends and because I find out all kinds of other things I wasn't planning to learn.

This is why you will sometimes see me running down the hall screaming just before school because I forgot to photocopy something that is the whole point of the day.

With a big project like this, though, and with so many students doing it, I need to make sure how you're planning to present your research and that you aren't biting off more than you can chew (or less).

I want you to go into detail and to give a list, sketch, or description of your project. For instance, here's my written plan for a web site about how cats purr. You can see that I might be too ambitious. It's a lot of work. I could probably get it done if I work on it a little bit every day in my spare time. I might decide to just use one photograph of my cat and put it on every page instead of four different photographs.

You don't have to write it out like that. You can do a drawing instead. Here's a version of the same thing done as a diagram.

However you decide to do it, it should be complete, with details, and it should be neat and readable so when you hand it to me I can read it and have an idea of what you want to do. I will get it back to you with comments of things I want to know or things you might need to change.