Identifies the topic you have chosen for your final assignment and explains why you have chosen this topic (Note: It highly recommended that you meet with the instructor first to discuss your topic choice.) b) Outlines the research sources you will be using (Note: You don't have to have found every source but you must identify the organizations or types of organizations where you will go to find those sources. But if you know the sources already, include them.) c) Describes the specific types of information you will be seeking from those sources and why (what kinds of data are you expecting to find, what kinds of stories do you expect to gather) d) Identifies the person you will be interviewing and explains why this person is important and relevant to the investigation e) Provides a list of the questions you plan on asking the subject during the interview (Remember they can only answer about things within their jobs/lives/jurisdiction, and you can't ask them to answer for other people or organizations. Use your interview to ask about their experiences, observations, anecdotes, and opinions, and not to ask about facts or information you can gather through your own research.) You may choose a topic of current public/media interest, historical interest, or something with a human interest angle. Your topic must be investigative, and not just a story. You must dig into a topic to dig up facts and statistics, information and research, insights and human interest. This is a course in Canadian non-academic research techniques, so your sources should be nonacademic, and your topic should be something where you use Canadian sources to research it. The instructor is offering one-on-one meetings with each student to help them figure out their topic. You'd be wise to take advantage of this offer. If you get the story plan right, you can ace the other assignments. If you get it wrong, you may not be able to pass the others. This story plan should be written in a way that helps to sell the story. In the real world, often an editor is persuaded by the enthusiasm of the pitcher and the fact that the proposal itself is so well-written and gripping.