In this course, your summative assignment is an action research proposal that you will work on each week. For an overview of the week-by-week plan for how each assignment will build to the final proposal, please see the . For the Week One Assignment, you may use content from this weeks Discussion Two: Preliminary Area of Focus to expand and extend your ideas for your action research proposal. This content will eventually be further developed to be a part of the Introduction Section in your Action Research Proposal. Depending on the feedback you received from peers and your instructor in the discussion, you might make changes to your preliminary ideas to more clearly establish and solidify your area of focus. After Week One, your area of focus cannot change since we have a short six week time frame to develop your Action Research Proposal. As a result, be sure to consider your area of focus very carefully as you develop this assignment. Please refer to the Weekly Guidance for further information and examples to inform this assignment. Please be sure to carefully review the Instructor Guidance and course readings for this week to inform the development of this assignment. *Reminder to Students: Remember to save all copies of your work throughout the course as you will use each assignment as part of the Final Action Research Proposal. For many of the discussions and assignments, you are building on your work each week, so it is appropriate to use content from your discussions in your weekly assignments, generally expanding and extending concepts and sections as you progress from week to week. You will have the opportunity to make revisions to each section of your proposal based on instructor and peer feedback prior to your final version in the Final Action Research Proposal, so be sure to revisit the feedback you have received from your instructor and classmates each week to continuously refine your proposal throughout the course.
