English 305w: Writing in Disciplinary Communities

Northern Arizona Univeristy, Flagstaff AZ

Purpose: Most projects need a proposal before a supervisor or manager can okay the work. Your job is to do the preliminary work BEFORE spending lots of time and effort on a job unnecessary on the wrong path.

Specifications: Use the template presented here as a basic format for your proposal. If your area requires a specific format, use that.

Remember that a common proposal includes $ breakdown. How many working hours the project will take, and sometimes you need to break down all the tasks for the team members involved. You don't need to do that for this paper.

The following language is a template. If you are not using video, interviews, etc., then do not put language into your report.

Template

Date:

To:
From: [when submitting hard copy, always inital next to your name]

Subject/Re: "Proposal for ..."

"I propose to..."

"Currently, the subject X ...."

"The audience for my paper is X while the audience for my project is Y."

PLAN AND SECONDARY SOURCES

"My plan for the paper is to ..."

• Follow up on A,B, and C in periodicals and journals
• Set up interviews with D and E
• Get the video "important video" through interlibrary loan

"My plan for the project is to..."

• Work through Word's templates on X
• find visuals of Y
• Create a posterboard/webpage/newsletter/pamphlet/flash cards... [whatever project you think you'll do).

Presently my sources include:

• Make sure you include a FULL citation of your sources