You are writing a 850- word minimum (3-5 pages) Research Planning Report that presents an overview of your topic, the research question that guides your exploration, and the sources you find in this p

You are writing a 850- word minimum (3-5 pages) Research Planning Report that presents an overview of your topic, the research question that guides your exploration, and the sources you find in this part of the research process. you will: evaluate the sources you’ve found so far (5 minimum), analyze why you discarded or kept certain sources, identify areas you still need to explore or predict further research you need to conduct to gather additional useful sources, and suggest a potential approach or ideas around which you might organize and present this research in future projects .The Research Planning 

Report should address the following:

• What is the specific topic you are exploring ? Be as detailed as possible and include any subtopics you might explore. Provide a summary and brief review of your topic, complete with information about the significance of this topic and the purpose of communicating about it to potential audiences.
• What question are you following to guide and organize your research? What have you discovered so far and what else do you think you'll discover or want to know about your topic?
• Who are your anticipated audiences for this information, specifically? Why would the research you’re planning to write about matter to your anticipated audiences?
• What information have you found so far from your sources, and how well do those sources support your proposed topic? Do you have one or more key ideas you want to feature in your essay, and what are they if so? Explain in detail. What other sources do you think you might need going forward? What source material/evidence are you missing?
• Thoroughly explain your plan for researching your topic for the research essay in the next project .What kinds of research will you look at in addition to what you have already found? Where will you search for additional sources (not search engines or the library, but which scholarly journals or other sources might be applicable?) Which popular sources might you search for? Where are the gaps in your research that you hope to fill in?

All citations should be APA style .