The paper should contain afocused overview, a theoretical framework, and a proposal for future work. About 3 pages for each section. The focused overview should draw out the blind spots or dead ends which are stultifying discussion or thought in the topic you have chosen. This section should address the research or practices in the field itself, and discuss that material in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. Essentially a literature review looking at research in the past 10 years or so and explaining why this problem continues to persist. Provide critical analysis such as failed attempts at solving the issue as well as patterns/trends. Yourtheoretical framework can be taken from the research at hand or it may be a different perspective you feel could move the conversation in a new direction. Look at specific case studies. What are some after school programs and/or summer camps aiming to offer a computer science education. What has or has not worked for these programs. Be detailed, concrete, and descriptive here. Make critical links between the dominant body of work or discourse and the original idea you bring to it through thoughtful and imaginative intellectual innovation. Finally, your proposal for future work may be a research project, an academic thought experiment, a policy recommendation, or a pragmatic answer. A great proposal for this paper is a nonprofit company that takes public funding and partners with schools to provide computer science courses as part of an after school program. Your final essay should cite at least four sources. Three of the sources should be academic or professional publications from the past 10 years. Statistics or data may be used, but they will not be counted toward the four sources.
