Due by email at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, March 2. Must be sent as an attachment in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format.
Each group needs to submit only one proposal for the group. Your group leader should send the proposal to me, and I’ll send my response to the group leader, who can then forward the response to the entire group.
Like with your proposals for the research-based ethics essay, the goal of the proposal is again to begin a dialogue between us. I want to have an idea of what your group is working on and of any questions or problems you are having.
Your proposal will consist of four short sections:
Section 1: What business, campus unit, or non-profit organization will your group be working with? Remember, you have to receive written permission from the group that you’re working with and only one group can work with any one business. Have you received permission from the business you picked? If not, what are your backup choices? Finally, will you need to arrange meetings with the owner or manager of the business to get information for your project?
Section 2: Provide a brief breakdown of each group member’s responsibilities? Who will be doing what? I want to see that the workload will be distributed roughly evenly throughout the group. Also, remember as a group to create your own deadlines and to take advantage of your group members’ strengths. For example, if someone in your group is good at making graphs or charts, then you should have that person work on that material.
Section 3: What types of sources is your group going to use? Where are you finding your sources? What types of information do you need to generate yourselves? What information, depending on the business’ cooperation, do you need from the business?
Section 4: Ask at least two specific questions you have about this assignment. I will respond to your questions the best I can. Please do not ask questions such as “What do we need to do to get an A on this project?”; instead, your questions should be about content or structure: “How much space should we dedicate to introducing our green philosophy?” or “Where in this business plan should we express our own opinions?”
Evaluation: Like other homework assignments, your proposal will be graded on a check-plus, check, check-minus, no credit scale. All group members will get the same grade.
