Your Name 
Course and Major 
Student Number 
MuL 110 Proposal Outline 

Draft Title 
draft subtitle 

OVERVIEW 
(Overview and background. Introduce your STUDY OBJECT (SONG, EVENT, MUSICAL PROCESS, 
REPERTORY OF SONGS, INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITY, GENRE OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE) 
and why you wanna study it.) 

RESEARCH QUESTIONS 
1. Question 1. One main question, 2 and 3 relates to number 1 
2. Question 2 (if applicable) 
3. Question 3 (if applicable) 

POSSIBLE THEORIES  
1. Theory 1. main theory, This can change along the way  
2. Theory 2 (if applicable, either supports 1 or counters it) 
3. Theory 3 (if applicable. You can have more as applicable) 

METHODOLOGY 
Explain what methods you will use to get data and information and WHY it will help you get the 
data and conclusion you need. JUSTIFY your method. :D 

METHODS, TOOLS, and RELATED LITERATURE 

Participant-Observation 
If applicable, explain how. If not, delete section. Involves performance and observing, joining 
communities etc 

 
 
 

Archival Work 
If applicable, explain how. If not, delete section. Includes study of recordings, fieldnotes, 
newspaper articles, letters, photographs. Also videos and online articles and notes 

Techniques 
Explain tools that you will use in your paper. ​Interviews​, ​surveys​, what these ​questions ​will be. 
Also if you intend to ​record ​performances or interviews with ​video/audio/photos​, if you will 
employ ​fieldwork ​methods. Also included here are ​transcription ​and ​analysis ​techniques. 

Related Literature 
Explain section. Exisiting literature or studies related to your topics 

RECOMMENDED OUTLINE for PAPER 

I. INTRO and BACKGROUND 

Contents: ​bg​ on ​ed lit​, etc --- ​be prepared to edit and change ​this once you’ve finished the 
entire papertopic, why you chose, the ​significance​ of the topic, and ​methodology​ and ​methods, 
tools​, review on ​relat 

II. DATA GATHERED 

Contents: The actual topic. What you got. Introduce the topic and organize according to 
relevance. Normally you divide it into THREE SECTIONS. 

III. ANALYSIS OF DATA GATHERED 

Contents: here’s the theory part. Make sense of what you got. You can put your theories here, or 
what the data has proven, etc. normally this is divided according to how you divided your section 
II 

IV. ISSUES AND PROBLEMS 

Contents: issues or problems that arise with the topic. You can aim for one or three.  

V. RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDIES and CONCLUSION 

 
 

Contents: further studies - what do you think your topic branches out into. Or things you did not 
cover in this paper and are worth exploring in the future. synthesis of everything you have said, 
and your conclusion