| Barbara J. D'Angelo, Ph.D. Technical Communication Santa Catalina, 251B Phone: 480-727-1160 Email: bdangelo@asu.edu Yahoo IM ID: barb_dangelo Google chat: bdangelo907 |
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In this course, you will learn to develop persuasive strategies and themes for researching and writing professional proposals.
As part of the course, you will complete a funding proposal related to your career interests. For those of you who are in or planning academic careers, you will have the option to complete a major research proposal (including IRB) related to your academic discipline. For those of you who are practitioners, you will have the option to complete proposals related to your industry and career interests.
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:
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.
Coley, Soraya M. and Scheinberg, Cynthia A. (2008) Proposal Writing. Effective Grantsmanship. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Additional readings and resources are posted in Blackboard.
+/- grades will not be used in this course
| Assignment | Value |
| Discussion Board posts | 20 pts |
| Proposal(s) | 110 pts |
| Scale | Grade |
| 117 - 130 pts | A |
| 104 - 116 pts | B |
| 91 - 103 pts | C |
| 78 - 90 pts | D |
| 0 - 77 pts | E |
Students must use their ASU email account for all correspondence related to this course. I do not respond to course-related email from a non-ASU account. In addition, please use the course prefix and number (TWC543) in the subject line.
See the ASU Email help page for information on how to set up your ASU account and policy information.
Your email messages (and all communication, including Discussion Board posts) should be written in a professional style and tone. You should consider communicating with your instructor to be the equivalent of communicating with a supervisor at work and with other students as the equivalent of co-workers and colleagues.
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.”
Assignments are due by 11:59pm on the due date.
You must submit assignments by the deadline on the due date to receive credit. Anticipate and plan for technical problems with the network and with your own computer. Create a Plan B in case of problems: there are computer labs on all 4 ASU campuses and workstations in all of the libraries, keep the phone # of Computing Commons on hand in case of network outages. Public libraries also have workstations. Make backup copies of your assignments (and store them separately from your hard drive in case of crashes, and keep copies of email.
In addition to sumbitting final copies of your assignments to me, you will be sharing drafts for peer review. To ensure your documents can be opened and read, please submit files in either Word 2003 (.doc) format or convert your files to pdf format. If you are using a Mac, pdf conversion is built in. If you are using a PC, there are several programs available for free that will allow you convert documents to pdf format (do a Google search).
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.
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/
Last modified: 12 January 2010