Basically, a prospectus is a research or project proposal that you present to potential funders, e.g., government bodies, grant agencies like NSF. If this is your first time writing a prospectus, maybe you'd like some guidance on how to get started. Please refer to any information or samples you get from Dr. Hudak first. Then you might want to explore the resources listed below.

Many instructors require you to use peer-reviewed sources for your papers and projects, but what does that mean?

• Peer review is the process of having experts in a field review the quality of an article or book before it is published
• Most articles in scholarly and academic journals are peer-reviewed
• Books published by university or academic presses are peer-reviewed

Most databases allow you to limit your search to peer-reviewed articles. Here are two examples: