Final Research Project Preparation
I want us to get started on our final research project since it is going to take some time to get started. You are going to create your own application/website and provide the research and information needed to do so. Now, if you have no idea where to start or you don't have any creative ideas for a new app-- you can always choose an app idea that you are familiar with but you have some ideas for app improvement. This works also. Here are a few steps to help with the research process.
- Create a freewrite where you start to brainstorm ideas for a new app or improvements to a current one. Here you want to get out your ideas and get a starting point to work from.
- What type of application are you interested in creating or improving? You want to find out what category of application this fits under. This will help you find out if your idea already exists or not. It will also help you find out what similar applications are already out there.
- If you are coming up with a brand new idea- you want to find the closest application to your idea or the one that inspired you. You are going to find 2 sources/articles (this doesn't have to be a print source- you can find a video, etc.) that discuss this app (at least one needs to be a scholarly article). For one of these articles, you need to create a page summary that includes the articles 1) thesis 2) supporting evidence 3) end results/conclusions.
- If you are going to make improvements to a current application, you have two find 2 sources/articles (this doesn't have to be a print source- you can find a video, etc.) that discuss it. For one of these articles, you need to create a page summary that includes the articles 1) thesis 2) supporting evidence 3) end results/conclusions.
- After doing some basic research on your idea, you are going to create a 250 word (no more) proposal about your idea. This is just a draft of your proposal. Here you want to essentially "pitch" your idea by stating what you app does, how it does it, and why this is an app that would be useful. You are trying to persuade an audience to want to invest in your idea.
I'm going to use my idea for a website I'd like to create one day known as PlanMyEvent.Com". This is a website idea of mine that I used for a business project two semesters ago. This website will be used to assist its customers in creating the event of their liking. This website will also give its customers ideas on different types of events, as well as themes, and assistance for its events. PlanMyEvent.com will one day be a very easy to use website that almost anyone can use. It will start with a questionnaire in order for us to understand our customers idea better, as well as understand what it is their looking to accomplish. Plan my event, will plug the customers up with venues/locations, vendors, catering companies, security companies, party supply companies, entertainment, etc. And in turn how we will create revenue, is by each company plan my event uses in its events, Plan my event, will take a small portion of each compensation per company.
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