This paper is truly a real world paper. I would like the problem you are seeking to solve (or make better) to be a real one that grows from your real world. Find a problem that you would really like to solve. It can come from the town you live in, from the block you live on, from your county or from where you work. It can come from your church or from an organization you are a member of. Now, key to the problem is that it should be one that not only you experience and recognize, but one others see too. This marks whether it is significant enough to be worthy of addressing. Also, this paper is written directly to those who can make the changes we are suggesting — your boss, your mayor, town hall, City Council, the governor, your minister (etc.). Therefore, diplomacy is paramount. We have to urge them to 1) see the problem as serious enough to warrant solving, 2) to accept you ideas and change.
To make an audience who does not want to change to change, we must offer them carrots — encouragement to act from their own goodness; and offer the sticks — show them the consequences if nothing is done. Carrots and sticks are your tools.
Also, you need a good plan.
There are various types of proposals:
1) one-to-two-to-three piston proposals (here a series of necessary steps are presented that will move to solve the problem)
2) buffet style (here a series of potential options are presented)
3) Tiered approaches (i.e., offering many options, of which only one is viable)
4) Piggy back plans (i.e., building upon pre-existing systems)
5) Employs carrots (incentives to act — e.g., good things will happen if we adopt the plan) and sticks (disincentives — e.g., things will get worse if we do not enact the plan)
A. Before performing below tasks, get your proposal problem cleared in an email with me.
What will be the problem you will use for your proposal? Who will be your audience?
How will you demonstrate that it is serious enough to warrant solving?
B. Read Teen Suicide in Vinton — Student Sample in the Student Sample Essays folder (scroll through to the second essay and toggle/orient the screen using the arrow function/lower right corner in tool area). Come here and respond to the following:
1) Who is her audience? How does she get her audience to recognize that this is a serious problem? What are her carrots? What are her sticks?
2) What is her solution? How well thought out is it? How does she argue for her proposal so that we see that it is reasonable? What objections does she address and counter?
C. Read Video Gaming — Student Sample Proposal folder. Come here and respond to the following:
1) Who is his audience? How does he get his audience to recognize that this is a serious problem? What are his carrots? What are his sticks?
2) What is his solution? How well thought out is it? How does he argue for her proposal so that we see that it is reasonable? What objections does he address and counter?
Start Date
Jun 20, 2021 8:00 PM
End Date
Jun 27, 2021 8:00 PM
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