Proposal Memo: Final, Finished Draft

Overview

• This is an activity related to the Proposal Memo: Assignment.
• The activity is worth 500 points. I will add the points to your grade after checking your draft.

Goals

• Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
• Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
• Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
• Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications. [CLO 7]

The Task

For this Major Writing Project Activity, create a final, finished draft of your project in Microsoft Word. 

Getting Started

Complete these activities to revise, edit, and proofread your draft: 

• Proposal Memo: Check for a Strong Subject Line and Information-Rich Headings
• Proposal Memo: Check for Professional Design
• Proposal Memo: Check for Content Completion
• Proposal Memo: Editing and Proofreading

You are not required to complete the activities above, but they can help you finalize your draft.

Finishing Your Draft

Create a final, finished draft of your project in Microsoft Word. Keep the following Project Requirements in mind:

• • Focuses on a kind of writing from your Analysis of Writing in Your Field project that you have not written before.
  • Is a document in memo format created in a word processor.
  • Provides a specific subject line for the document.
  • Includes the following sections, in this order, in your memo:
    • Begins with a clear statement of purpose.
    • Provides a brief summary of the information in the document.
    • Explains the areas to be studied in your recommendation report, including the ethical issues you will consider.
    • Explains your research strategy, providing your initial plan for finding information about the kind of writing.
    • Ends with a request for approval.
  • Use professional design and formatting that does the following:
    • Makes information easy for readers to find and read.
    • Emphasizes important information.
    • Makes a good first impression as a polished, professional document.
  • Use accurate/appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, linking, and formatting.

Read additional details on the project assignment, Proposal Memo: Assignment.

Requirements

1. Create a document in memo format in a word processor. 
2. Propose the kind of writing you will focus on in your Recommendation Report, using the criteria above. 

Grading Process

I will award the points for this activity after I check your draft and ensure that it meets the basic requirements listed above. Note that your draft needs to be complete to earn the points for this activity. 

If I have a question or concern about your draft, I will add a comment to the draft and ask you to revise. Check the help link in the #TuesdayTutorial: Resources on How to Use Canvas DIscussion for information on how to read comments on your work.

I will not provide individualized editing or revision feedback on all drafts. Instead I will provide collective feedback to the class that goes over the issues that I see in the drafts all members of the course submit. I may use excerpts from your draft to provide collective feedback to the class, based on the Anonymous Use of Student Texts policy Links to an external site..