Instruction
This paper is designed to get you on track for writing your final paper for the course. In this paper, you should start with the general topic of distracted driving (see the paper Driven to distraction: Dual task studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone http://pss.sagepub.com/content/12/6/462.short ). From this general starting place, Id like you to think of a research topic that is related to either driving (that is, some other form of distraction), or distraction from electronic devices in the workplace. You may use your own workplace as a starting point, or you may use some other workplace that you would like to study. You can go wherever you want to with this, as long as its in some way related to distracted driving.
Write a paper that explains your thoughts, your topic, and where you think you could take it. What I specifically want from this paper (in 2 pages) is the following:
2 pages that describe the following questions
What is your research topic?Describe two if you can't narrow it down to one. Don't just tell me what it is; describe it a little. Pretend I'm an intelligent corporate executive who has read nothing of the work in your field, and you're asking for corporate funding to run this study.
Why is that topic important?(To society, to the field, and to you). Again, pretend I'm that smart but ignorant corporate executive who is deciding whether you get the funding to study this topic.
Why do you think current research is insufficient to cover this topic?I don't need a complete review, just a quick description of what you found from your notes and text.
How would you go about studying this?Just give me a general description; something you could describe to your boss as you're riding the elevator somewhere.
General quality. This is a holistic category intended to capture the general quality of your paper. Using professional language, good grammar, and other hallmarks of good writing is the emphasis here.
WILL NEED THIS IS 6 HOURS BE PUNCTUAL.