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Compare and Contrast Various Kinds of Concept Papers

Background Information for Learners

Concept papers are summaries of projects or issues that reflect the interests, experience and
expertise of the writer or organization. The goal of writing a concept paper is to explain a particular
idea to the audience objectively.

Concept Paper for a Project:

1. Cover Page-State the name of the proponents and their affiliations.
State the addresses, contact numbers, and email addresses of the proponents. State
the head of the agency and his/ her contact information and the date of submission.
2. Introduction-State the information about the funding agency to show that you
understand its mission. State the mission of the agency that the proponents represent and
align it to the funding agency’s mission. Also, state the year the proponents’ agency was
established, its major accomplishments, and other details that demonstrate its capability
to undertake the proposed project. Present and describe other partner agencies and why
they are qualified as such. Provide reasons why the funding agency should support the
project.
3. Rationale or Background-State the gap in knowledge to be addressed by the project.
State the problems to be solved. State the project’s significance.
4. Project Description- State the goals and objectives of the project. Present the
methodology (sometimes termed as Action Plan, Project Activities, or Approach).
Present the timeline expressed in months and year. State the benefits or anticipated
outcomes. State how success of outcomes will be evaluated.
5. Project Needs and Cost- Outline the main budget; include the item description and
amount. Explain or justify how the budget will be used. List the personnel or equipment
needed for the project.

Concept Paper for Academic Research:

1. Title Page- State your research title, name, school and date of submission.
2. Background of the Study- Provide the current state of the field you are researching on.
State the gap in knowledge and problems to be addressed by the research. Provide
statistics and previous studies to prove your claims. State the reasons why you want to
investigate on the chosen topic. State the theoretical and practical implications of your
proposed research.
 3. Preliminary Literature Review-Provide a theoretical framework. The theoretical
framework includes the theory that will guide you in the conduct of your research.
Provide related literature that supports your topic. Provide related studies that will help
you in conducting the research or analyzing and discussing the data. Provide a brief
synthesis of the reviewed literature and studies.
4. Statement of the Problem/ Objectives- State your general problem in one sentence.
State your specific research questions or objectives.
5. Abridged Methodology- Provide the context and participants of the study. Provide the
instruments to be used, the data collection procedure and the data analysis scheme to be
used.
6. Timeline- Provide a timeline (e.g., Gantt chart) set in months and year.
7. References- Provide a list of all books, journals, and other resources cited in your paper.

Learning Competency:
MELC: Compare and contrast various kinds of concept paper:
a. Art
b. Business
c. Law
d. Philosophy
e. Politics
f. Religion
g. Science
h. Sports
i. TechVoc – Home Economics, -Agri-Fishery, - IA, - ICT

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Directions: Let us recall the parts of CONCEPT PAPER FOR PROJECTS and CONCEPT
PAPER FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH. Answer the following questions using the hints
given.

1. It contains the information of the proponent.

2. It uses a Gantt chart.
3. It presents the goals and objectives of the project.
4. It contains theories that will guide the proponent in his/her
research.
5. It provides information about the topic of the study.
6. This contains the researches the proponent used in his/her
research.
7. This provides information about the subject or participants of the
study.
8. It shows the budget to be used in the project.
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Directions: Using the Venn Diagram, differentiate CONCEPT PAPER FOR PROJECT and
CONCEPT PAPER FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH. In answering this, please use your own words.
ADVANCE

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Directions: Read the following texts below and analyze which category it would fall. Choose
the correct answer on the choices provided below. Write your answer before the number.

a. Art b. Business c. Law d. Philosophy e. Politics

f. Religion g. Science h. Sports i. Home Economics j. Agri-Fishery
k. IA l. ICT

1. When the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve and

December passes into January, we say farewell to the year just gone and we hail the New
Year ahead. It is fitting that this first month should be called January, for the Roman god
Janus who gave this month its name was always represented with two faces, one that gazed at
the past and one that looked to the future. However, before the name January was adopted in
England, this month was called Wulf-Mōnath, or “wolf-month,” because at this time of the
year the bitter cold brought wolves into the villages to forage for food.

2. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the nervous

system was thought to control all communication within the body and the resulting
integration of behavior. Scientists had determined that nerves ran, essentially, on electrical
impulses. These
impulses were thought to be the engine for thought, emotion, movement, and internal
processes such as digestion. However, experiments by William Bayliss and Ernest Starling on
the chemical secretin, which is produced in the small intestine when food enters the stomach,
eventually challenged the view. From the small intestine, secretin travels through the
bloodstream to the pancreas. There, it stimulates the release of digestive chemicals. In this
fashion, the intestinal cells that produce secretin ultimately regulate the production of
different chemicals in different organ, the pancreas.

3. The sauce that is today called ketchup (or catsup) in

Western cultures is a tomato-based sauce that is quite distinct from the Eastern ancestors of
this product. A sauce called ke-tiap was in use in China at least as early as the seventeenth
century, but the Chinese version of the sauce was made of pickled fish, shellfish, and spices.
The popularity of this Chinese sauce spread to Singapore and Malaysia, where it was called
kechap.

4. When most people think or talk about dangers to our

environment, they focus on general terms like “pollution,” “smog,” and “acid- rain.” Also,
they often focus on the impact of supposedly man-made chemicals and compounds. But to
truly understand the risks to our environment, it’s helpful to focus on the danger of specific
chemical, which are often otherwise naturally-occurring elements that have been spread
harmfully by man. One of the largest threats to our environment is mercury: Hg on the
periodic table of elements.

5. From the moment in 1879 that cave paintings were

discovered at Altamira, scholars have wondered why the hunter-artists of the Old Stone Age
decided to cover the walls of dark caverns with animal images. Various answers have been
given, including that they were mere decoration, but this theory cannot explain the narrow
range of subjects of the inaccessibility of many of the paintings. In fact, the remoteness and
difficulty of access of many of the cave paintings and the fact they appear to have been used
for centuries are precisely what have led many scholars to suggest that the prehistoric hunters
attributed magical properties to the images they painted.

6. Rather than the overworked adobo (mislabeled “Philippine

stew” in foreign cookbooks), sinigang seems to me the dish most representative of Filipino
tastes. We like the lightly boiled, the slightly soured, the dish that includes meat (or fish or
shrimp), vegetables and broth. It is adaptable to all tastes (if you don’t like shrimp, then
bangus, or pork), to all classes and budget (even ayungin, sold in humble little piles, find their
way into the pot), to seasons and availability (walang talong, mahal ang gabi? Kangkong na
lang!)

7. There can be, of course, artists, and good artists, who do

not have a revolutionary attitude towards the life, and it is for precisely that group of artists
and intellectuals that the Revolution constitutes a problem. For a mercenary artist or
intellectual, for a dishonest artist or intellectual, it would never be a problem: he knows what
he has to do, he knows what it is in his interest, and he knows where he is going.

8. Suppose we could find a source of energy as vast as that of

the sun, one that will also be less dilute and, most of all, less geographically lopsided? Such
an
energy source does exist in the form of nuclear fusion. Not fission - but fusion! The two are
quite different. In nuclear fission, very large atoms are broken into somewhat smaller ones. In
nuclear fusion, very small atoms are combined into somewhat larger ones. In nuclear fission,
this chief energy source is uranium, a rather rare metal, which exist s in useful quantities in
only a few places on Earth. In nuclear fusion, the chief energy source is a form of hydrogen
called “deuterium”, which is found wherever water exists.

9. “Barbie,” a twelve-inch plastic teen-ager, is the best-known and best-

selling doll in history. Since its introduction in 1959, the Barbie doll population of the world
has grown to, 12,000,000 – more than the human population of Los Angeles or Paris. Little
girls adore Barbie because she is highly realistic and eminently dress-upable. Mattel, Inc.,
makers of Barbie, also sells a complete wardrobe of her, including clothes for ordinary
daytime wear, clothes for formal party wear, clothes for swimming and skiing. Moreover, our
attitudes towards things reflect basic value judgments. Nothing could be more dramatic than
the difference between the new breed of little girls who cheerfully turn in their Barbies for
new and improved model and those who, like their mothers and grandmothers before them,
clutch lingeringly and lovingly to the same doll until it disintegrates from sheer age. In this
difference lies the contrast between past and future, between societies based on permanence,
and the new, fast-forming society based on transience.

REFINE
Refine your skills in answering HOTS questions!

Directions: Read comprehensively the sample concepts papers below. Then, compare and
contrast the two concept papers using a T-chart by answering the following question s.

Things: The Throw-Away Society Extracts from Words to the Intellectuals

Alvin Toffler Fidel Castro

(1) “Barbie,” a twelve-inch plastic teen- (1) There can be, of course, artists, and good
ager, is the best-known and best-selling doll artists, who do not have a revolutionary
in history. Since its introduction in 1959, the attitude towards the life, and it is for
precisely that group of artists and
Barbie doll population of the world has
intellectuals that the Revolution constitutes
grown to, 12,000,000 – more than the a problem.
human population of Los Angeles or Paris.
Little girls adore Barbie because she is (2) For a mercenary artist or intellectual, for a
highly realistic and eminently dress-upable. dishonest artist or intellectual, it would
never be a problem: he knows what he has
Mattel, Inc., makers of Barbie, also sells a
to do, he knows what it is in his interest, and
complete wardrobe of her, including clothes he knows where he is going.
for ordinary daytime wear, clothes for
formal party wear, clothes for swimming
and skiing.
(2)Recently Mattel announced a new and (3) The real problem exists for the artist or
improved Barbie doll. The new version has intellectual who does not have a
slimmer figure, “real” eyelashes, and a revolutionary attitude towards life but who
twist- and-turn waist that makes her more is, however, an honest person. It is clear that
humanoid than ever. Moreover, Mattel he who has that attitude towards life,
announced that, for the first time, any young whether he is revolutionary or not, whether
lady wishing to purchase a new Barbie he is an artist or not, has his goals, has his
would receive a trade-in allowance for her objectives and we should all ask ourselves
old one. about those goals, has his objectives. For the
revolutionary, those goals and objectives are
(3)What Mattel did not announce was that by directed towards the change of reality; those
trading in for her old doll for a goals and objectives are directed towards
technologically improved model, the little the redemption of man. It is man himself,
girl of today, citizen’s of tomorrow’s super- his fellow man, the redemption of his fellow
industrial world, would learn a fundamental man that constitutes the objective of the
lesson about the new society: that man’s revolutionary. If they ask us revolutionaries
relationships with things are increasingly what matters most to us, we will say the
temporary people, and we will always say the people.
The people in their true sense, that is, the
(4)The ocean of manmade physical objects that
majority of the people, those who have had
surrounds us is set within a larger ocean of
to live in exploitation and in the cruelest
natural objects. But increasingly, it is the
neglect. Our basic concern will always be
technologically produced environment that
the great majority of the people, that is, the
matters for the individual. The texture of
oppressed and exploited classes. The point
plastic or concrete, the iridescent glisten of
of view through which we view everything
an automobile under a streetlight, the
is this: whatever is good for them will be
staggering vision of a cityscape seen from a
good for us; whatever is noble, useful, and
window of a jet – these are the intimate
beautiful for them, will be noble, useful and
realities of his existence. Man-made things
beautiful for us. If one does not think of the
enter into the color of his consciousness.
people and for the people, that is, if one
The number is expanding with explosive
does not think and does not act for the great
force, both absolutely and relative to the
exploited masses of the people, for the great
natural environment. This will be even more
masses which we want to redeem, then one
true in super-industrial society than it is
simply does not have a revolutionary
today.
attitude.
(5)Anti-materialists tend to deride to the
(4) It is from this point of view that we analyze
importance of “things.” Yet things are
the good, the useful, and the beautiful of
highly significant, not merely because of
every action.
their functional utility, but also because of
their psychological impact. We develop (5) We understand that it must be a tragedy
relationships with things. Things affect our when someone understands this and none
sense of continuity or discontinuity. They the less has to confess that he is incapable of
play a role in the structure of situations and fighting for it.
the fore shortening of our relationships with
things accelerates the pace of life.
(6) Moreover, our attitudes towards things (6) We are, or believe ourselves to be
reflect basic value judgments. Nothing revolutionaries. Whoever is more of an
could be more dramatic than the difference artist than a revolutionary cannot think
between the new breed of little girls who exactly the same as we do. We struggle for
cheerfully turn in their Barbies for new and the people without inner conflict, we know
improved model and those who, like their that we can achieve what we have set out to
mothers and grandmothers before them, do. The principal goal is the people. We
clutch lingeringly and lovingly to the same have to think about the people before we
doll until it disintegrates from sheer age. In think about ourselves, and that is the only
this difference lies the contrast between past attitude that can be defined as a truly
and future, between societies based on revolutionary attitude...
permanence, and the new, fast-forming
society based on transience. (7) The case was well made that there were
many writers and artists who were not
(7) The man-thing relationships are growing revolutionaries, but were however, honest
more and more temporary many be writers and artists; that they wanted to help
illustrated by examining the culture the Revolution, and that the Revolution is
surrounding the little girl who trades in her interested in their help; that they wanted to
doll. This child soon learns that Barbie dolls work for the Revolution and that, at the
are by no means the only physical object same time, the Revolution was interested in
that passes into and out of her young life at their contributing their knowledge and
a rapid clip. Diapers, bibs, paper napkins, efforts on its behalf.
Kleenex, towels, non-returnable soda bottles
– all are used up quickly in her home and (8) It is easier to appreciate this when specific
ruthlessly eliminated. Corn muffins come in cases are analyzed: and among those
baking tins that are thrown away after one specific cases are many that are not easy to
use. Spinach is encased in plastic sacks that analyze. A Catholic writer spoke here. He
can be dropped into a pan of boiling water raised the problems that worried him and he
for heating, and then thrown away. TV spoke with great clarity. He asked if he
dinners are cooked and often served on could make an interpretation of a
throw-away trays. Her home is a large determined problem from his idealistic point
processing machine through which objects of view or if he could write a work
flow, entering and leaving, at a faster and defending that point of view. He asked quite
faster rate of speed. From birth on, she is frankly if, within a revolutionary regime, he
inextricably embedded in a throw-away could express himself in accordance with
culture. those sentiments. He posed the problem in a
form that might be considered symbolic.
(8) The idea of using a product, once or for a
brief period and then replacing it, runs (9) He was concerned about knowing if he could
counter to the grain of societies or write in accordance with those sentiments or
individuals steeped in a heritage of poverty. in accordance with that ideology, which was
Not long ago, Uriel Rone, a market not exactly the ideology of the Revolution.
researcher for the French advertising He was in agreement with the Revolution
agency, Publicis, told me: “The French on economic and social
housewife is questions, but his philosophic position was
 not used to disposable products. She likes to distinct from that of the Revolution. And
keep things, even old things, rather than this case is worthy of being kept well in
throw them away. We represented one mind, because it is a case representative of
company that wanted to introduce a kind of the group of writers and artists who
plastic throw-away curtain. We did a demonstrate a favorable attitude towards the
marketing study for them and found the Revolution and wish to know what degree
resistance too strong.” This resistance, of freedom they have within the
however, is dying all over the developed revolutionary condition to express
world. themselves in accordance with their
feelings. That is the group that constitutes a
(9) Thus a writer, Edward Maze, has pointed problem for the Revolution, just as the
out many Americans
revolution
visiting Sweden in the early 1950’s were
astounded by its cleanliness. “We were constitutes a problem for them, and it is the
almost awed by the fact that there were no duty of the Revolution to be concerned with
beer and soft drink bottles by the roadsides, the situation of those artists and writers,
as, much to our shame, there were in because the Revolution ought to bend its
America. But by the 1960’s, lo and behold, efforts towards having more than the
bottles were suddenly blooming along revolutionaries, more than the revolutionary
Swedish highways ... What happened? artists and intellectuals, move along with it.
Sweden had become a buy, use, and throw- It is possible that the men and women who
away society, following the American have a truly revolutionary attitude towards
pattern.” In Japan today throw-away tissues reality do not constitute the greatest sector
are so universal that cloth handkerchiefs are of the population: the revolutionaries are the
regarded as old fashioned, not to say vanguard of the people, but the
unsanitary. In England for sixpence, one revolutionaries should bend their efforts
may buy a “Dentamatic throw-away towards having all the people move along
toothbrush” which comes already coated with them. The Revolution cannot renounce
with toothpaste for its one-time use. And the goal of having all honest men and
even in France, disposable cigarette lighters women, whether writers and artists or not,
are commonplace. From cardboard milk moving along with it; the Revolution should
containers to the rockets that power space bend its efforts towards converting everyone
vehicles, products created for short-term or who has doubts into a revolutionary. The
one-time use are becoming more numerous Revolution should try to win over the
and crucial to our way of life. greatest part of the people to its ideas; the
Revolution should never give up counting
(10) The recent introduction of paper and on the majority of the people, counting not
quasi-paper clothing carries the trend only on the revolutionaries, but on all honest
toward disposability a step further. citizens who, although they may not have a
Fashionable boutiques and working-class revolutionary attitude towards life, are with
clothing stores have sprouted whole
departments devoted to gaily colored and the Revolution.
imaginatively designed paper apparel.
(10) The Revolution should give up only
Fashion magazines display
breathtakingly sumptuous gowns, coats, those who are incorrigible reactionaries,
who are incorrigible counter-
revolutionaries.
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 pajamas, even wedding dresses made of Towards all others the Revolution must
paper. The bride pictured in one of these have a policy; the Revolution has to have an
wears a long white train of lacelike paper attitude towards those intellectuals and
that, the caption writer notes, will make writers. The Revolution has to understand
“great kitchen curtains” after the ceremony. the real situation and should therefore act in
such a manner that the whole group of
(11) Paper clothes are particularly suitable for artists and intellectuals who are not
children. Writes one fashion expert: “Little
girls will soon be able to spill ice cream, genuinely revolutionaries can find within
draw pictures and make callouts on their the Revolution a place to work and create, a
clothes while their mother smiles benignly place where their creative spirit, even
at their creativity.” And for adults who want though they are not revolutionary writers
to express their own creativity, there is even and artists, has the opportunity and freedom
a “paint-yourself-dress” complete with to be expressed.
brushes Price: $2.00
(12) Price, of course, is a critical factor behind
the paper explosion. Thus, a department
store features simple A-line dresses made of
what it calls “devil-may-care cellulose fiber
and nylon.” At $1.29 each, it is almost
cheaper for the consumer to buy and discard
a new one than to send an ordinary dress to
the cleaners. Soon it will be. But more than
the economics is involved, for the extension
of the throw-away culture has important
psychological consequences.
(13) We develop a throw-away mentality to
match our- throw-away products. This
mentality produces, among other things, a
set of radically altered values with respect to
property. But the spread of disposability
through the society also implies decreased
durations in man-thing relationships. Instead
of being linked with a single object over a
relatively long span of time, we are linked
for brief periods with the succession of
objects that supplant it.

QUESTIONS Things: The Throw-Away Extracts from Words to

Society the Intellectuals

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 1. Where does the essay
fall under? Art,
Business, Law,
Philosophy, Politics,
Religion, Science,
Sports TechVoc – Home
Economics, Agri-
Fishery, IA, ICT
2. Explain/ support your
answer in number 1.

3. What is the main point

of the essay?

4. Do you agree or
disagree with this
point? Why?

5. How does it ( your

answer in #4) aid in
developing the
authors main point
help?

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Directions: You have to think of one concept related to any of the following fields: Art,
Business, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, Home Economics,
Agriculture, Industrial Arts, Information and Communication Technology. Explain your
chosen concept using explication (Compare it to other fields of concept such as Art, Law
etc.). Your

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explanation must be at least 50 words and at most 300 words. Please refer to the rubric below.
Write it on a 1 whole sheet of paper.

Rubric for Explication

5 3 2
Statement The statement is The statement is The statement is not
clearly described in described in described in
sufficient detail and sufficient detail and sufficient detail and
in terms that are in terms that are in terms that are
accessible to the accessible to the accessible to the
Audience audience Audience
Background The concept paper The concept paper The concept paper
provides provides some does not provide
enough background background background
information for information to information to
decision makers (the understand the understand the
class and instructor) significance of the significance of the
to understand the problem being problem being
significance of the addressed. addressed.
problem being
addressed.
Audience and The concept paper The concept paper The concept paper
states the upcoming states the upcoming does not state the
Purpose project’s initial project’s initial upcoming project’s
purpose or purpose or initial purpose or
objectives –clearly objectives –clearly objectives.
and concisely.
Grammar, Style, Sentences are Sentences are Sentences has errors,
grammatically grammatically and the style is not
and Format correct, and style is correct, and the style appropriate.
appropriate. is somewhat
appropriate.

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6. Concept Paper for Academic Research
7. Concept Paper for Academic Research 6. I
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