Research Proposal

Sheldon Parris

Prof. Sonia Begert

English 102

Introduction

     As the united states continue to grow and develop, so does our national debt. Our national debt is at an all time high of 18 trillion dollars and continuing to grow every second. In the past 30 years it has almost doubled in dollars owed to numerous creditors, but one of those I feel is a main contributor to our country’s debt is China. In this paper I hope to further my research as to why that is. Now many of us know a lot of the world’s imports are from china. What caught my attention and why I wanted to learn more about this is something that is shocking to me. The current portion of the national debt due to china is at 18.6% and climbing, Yet we use Chinas money to turn around and buy their exports, making it a seemingly never ending downward cycle. Yes it sounds simple to quit importing from china but is not that simple and that what I hope to further my knowledge about in this paper.

Plan to Collect Information

     Since my topic has what seems to be an unlimited and never ending amount of data, that literally is changing every moment, it is very hard to be 100% accurate in all of my findings but likewise for any of the sources I have gathered. A very large portion of the information that I have gathered has been from peer reviewed scholarly sources that are more fact based rather than opinion, which is the only way to construe my paper. I not only have acquired good information from those articles however also from recent periodicals about the matter. Since it is hard because this topic is very broad, I have chosen to narrow it down to a specific creditor, which is China, still broad, but can pinpoint more facts.

Project Timeline

After researching my topic and gathering information, I’m getting a very slow start on my project nonetheless a start. I plan to finish my literature review and abstract/outline before the deadline of 12/5 along with finishing up my paper due 12/9.  My topic sounded good on paper but realized after it was too late to go back that it would take a lot more time then planned especially while trying to keep up on the other assignments blogs etc.  I will also be having classmates peer review my work before final submissions.

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