Formal Group Proposal Report
The goal of the “Formal Group Proposal Report” was to show our comprehension of everything we learned throughout the semester. We had to demonstrate our ability to accurately analyze our audience, present “a clear and concise problem statement, offering a persuasive solution, and providing focused supporting information” and finally create a professional document that presents a clear, well thought out solution.
For our proposal, we chose to promote student activities during the spring semester. We decided to specifically promote the Red and Black Game. This idea was not any of our ideas from the “Proposal Idea Memos”. After listening to Dr. Fricke’s lecture on “do-ability” and reading his feedback on our memos, we decided none of our initial ideas were practical for this assignment.
Our audience for this report was Mason Moses, President of the Student Government Association. Because this report would be presented to SGA, we wrote in a formal, positive, yet easy to understand tone. We presented two recommendations. One recommendation required planning, money and effort but would, in our opinion, be most effective. Therefore we presented actual statistics proving our point.
This assignment was fairly easy to complete after doing the rough draft assignment. Since we had originally planned on turning in this assignment for early grading, our rough draft was very nearly complete. We decided against early grading because Dr. Fricke was available during his office hours to go over our rough draft with us. One of our group members, Mike, volunteered to take in the document to have Dr. Fricke review it. Dr. Fricke gave us several suggestions on to to make our report better. I think our decision to not submit this assignment for early grading was a good move.
I think this project helped change the way I feel about group projects. When I have worked in groups in the past, I have always had to basically do the project on my own. Now that I look back on those bad experiences and compare them to this project, I must have just had bad luck with group members. I feel that the group I was assigned for this project was instrumental in creating a good report for this class. As I have stated before, I am not strong in the English department but, my group members Rachel and Mike are good at writing and editing. They were able to take my (and their) thoughts and turn them into a very effective document. Since I am more of a creative person, I was able to create an attractive and effective PowerPoint presentaion (according to the presentation feedback). So, I have learned that when organized and delegated properly,
