Aspects of urbanization or city planning in a particular city.

Research Project: The Future of the City

The Research project section of English 100 will focus on the present and future of the city. For your Research Essay, you are asked to write a research about King Abdullah Economic City and develop a research question related to your topic.

Sample topics include the following:

–New technologies; domestic connectivity

–Transportation; infrastructure

–Social media; communities; digital futures; virtual reality

–Aspects of urbanization or city planning in a particular city

Building on class conversations throughout the term, and on scholarly conversations through your research, your final paper should form an argument in response to the question you develop about your topic. Your argument should incorporate and summarize (at least) three scholarly sources—journal articles or books— relevant to your topic and question. You should also incorporate relevant examples as evidence for your claims. You may use non-scholarly sources in your essay but they do not count toward the required three scholarly sources.

Your Research Essay should be approximately 2000 words—around 8 typed, double-spaced pages—and formatted in Times New Roman 12 pt. or a similar-sized font. It should include a title (but no title page necessary) and a Works Cited page. Please underline your thesis statement. The research essay will be evaluated on: the substance of its investigation of the topic; its argument development; organization; effective incorporation of and summary of scholarly sources; effective use of evidence; and sentence-level proficiency.