Draft

Proposal: This project showed me how important it is to present your idea for a research project in a clear, concise, and appealing manner. When we started this project, I was not that excited about the topic my group had chosen but I gradually warmed up to it when we started putting our proposal together. I realized that even though the topic was not super interesting or novel, it could still be presented in a way that could gain some interest from other students in the class. I thought that writing a proposal would be similar to writing a scientific paper, but it was much much different. It was difficult writing the proposal without knowing if the results that we would collect would be significant enough to make doing the experiment worth it. From this project I learned that even if you do not know what the outcome of your experiment will be, it is still important to be confident in your proposal and provide a concise summary of what you know, and what you hope to find.