TWC443/543 Proposal Writing

In this course, you will learn to develop persuasive strategies and themes for researching and writing professional proposals

Outcomes

Outcomes articulate the skills, abilities, and knowledge that students learn in the MWTC Program. If you are a TWC major, you will present examples of your work from the courses you have taken in your capstone portfolio to demonstrate your learning based on these outcomes. As you are taking courses, an understanding of the outcomes will help you in two ways: 1) it will help you understand how the various courses tie together and integrate work and experiences and 2) it will help you to identify and select coursework for your portfolio that meets specific outcomes. In this course, the outcomes that are specifically addressed include:

Rhetorical Knowledge:

R1: Identify, articulate, and focus on a defined purpose

R2: Respond to the need of the appropriate audience

R3: Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation

R4: Understand how each genre helps to shape writing and how readers respond to it

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

CRW1: Understand that research and writing are a series of tasks, including accessing, retrieving, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate data and information from sources that vary in content, format, structure, and scope

CRW2: Understand the relationships among language, knowledge, and power including social, cultural, historical, and economic issues related to information, writing, and technology

CRW3: Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others to accomplish a specific purpose within a context

Processes

P1: Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text

P2: Develop research and writing strategies appropriate to the context and situation

P3: Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading

P4: Understand research and writing as an open process that permits writers to use later invention and re-thinking to revise their work

Knowledge of Conventions:

KC1: Learn standard tools for accessing and retrieving information

KC2: Learn common formats for different genres

KC3: Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics

KC4: Apply appropriate means of documenting their work

To meet these outcomes, on completion of this course, you will be able to:

Course Introduction

This course is an introduction to proposal writing. There are many types of proposals; you have probably written academic proposals in your courses that are addressed to your instructor. In this course, we will focus on funding proposals that are addressed to external audiences: funding agencies. You will identify an organization that you will represent (write your proposal for), identify a funding need, identify an appropriate funding source, research and compose a complete proposal by adhering to the funding source's guidelines and requirements.

Course Requirements

This is an online course. If you have never taken an online course, you may want to take the Online Learning Readiness Quiz to see if it's right for you.

All assignments are expected to be completed on time. Late assignments will not be accepted for any reason other than documented family or medical emergency.

As part of this course, you will be participating in online discussions. In the online environment, we lose visual cues indicating how others’ are responding to our words—there is no eye contact, facial or body expressions to guide us. Consider what you are writing and how someone may react to it before you post it. Each of you bring unique knowledge and experience of and perspectives to the class and discussions. Contribute, challenge, and be challenged in return. But at all times, you should be professional, polite, thoughtful, and show respect for one another. This is non-negotiable --flaming will not be tolerated and will be considered grounds for a 0 for the week's work. Please read “Core Rules of Netiquette.”

Email

Students enrolled in MWTC courses are required to use an ASU email account for all course-related email. communication. I do not respond to course-related email from a non-ASU account. In addition, please use the course prefix and number (TWC443 or TWC543) in the subject line.

See the ASU Email help page for information on how to set up your ASU account and policy information.

Texts and Required Readings

Coley, Soraya M. and Scheinberg, Cynthia A. (2008) Proposal Writing. Effective Grantsmanship. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Course Evaluation

Academic Integrity

As a student in this course you are expected to complete your own work and to write your own assignments. The use of all sources should be properly cited and documented.

You are responsible for reading and understanding your rights, responsibilities and obligations under ASU’s Student Academic Integrity Policy (http://provost.asu.edu/academicintegrity).

Additional information on plagiarism can be found on the Council for Writing Program Administrators’ statement on best practices for defining and avoiding plagiarism (http://www.wpacouncil.org/node/9).

If you have any questions about how or when to cite sources in your assignments, please contact me or consult with a tutor in the ASU Student Success Center.

Students with Special Needs

If you have a documented disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course work, I encourage you to contact Disability Student Resources (DRS). Their phone number is (480) 965-1362 (voice) or (480) 965-9000 (TTY). They can also be accessed on the web at http://www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/ed/drc/

Assignment	Value
Confirmation email	5 pts
Discussion Board posts (13 weeks @ 2 pts each)	26 pts
Proposal	90 pts

Scale	Grade
109 - 121 pts	A
97 - 108 pts	B
85 - 96 pts	C
73 - 84 pts	D
0 - 72	E

Assignment	Value
Confirmation email	5 pts
Discussion Board posts (13 weeks @ 2 pts each)	26 pts
Proposal	90 pts
Graduate assignment	50 pts

Scale	Grade
154 - 171 pts	A
137 - 153 pts	B
120 - 136 pts	C
103 - 119 pts	D
0 - 102 pts	E