Week 12

Tuesday

DUE!! Final White Paper Final Revision (along with all of the goods)

1. Draft
2. Peer Responses
3. Revisions (show the process)
4. Final!

DUE! Peer Collaboration Form (individual deliverable)

In Class

• Discuss Project #3 in greater detail
• Model pre-meeting research, look at Sample proposals (two)
• Look at Preparation Materials (attached)
• Look at Deliverable 1: Memo sheet (attached)
• Compare a white paper and a proposal

For Next meeting

• Research your potential companies
• Discuss project ideas (group mini-presentations)
  • Rank your proposed clients (for handing in)
• Discuss contacting client; phone, e-mail, in person, etc.
  • What to say
  • How to say it
  • When to say it
  • Where to say it
  • Professional Ethos
  • Read The Rhetoric of E-mail in PWOnline
  • Read "Business Email Etiquette: Maintaining a Professional Image"
  • Read Proposals in PWOnline 

Thursday

Work in group on the proposal

For next meeting

• Preparation
• Objective
• Questions
• Professional Ethos
• Note taking, etc.

Week 13

Tuesday

• Preparing interviewing clients--see the attachment
• Discuss interviewing clients (in class group activity)
  • Preparation for Interview
  • Objective of Interview
  • Questions for Interview
  • Professional Ethos (how to establish it, maintain it, etc.)
  • Note taking, etc...
• Client status report-see the attachment

IF TIME...

• Discuss proposal writing
  • Rhetoric of Proposals (audience, purpose, presentation, writing, etc.)
  • What should be in a/your Proposals ?
  • Contractual aspect of proposals

For Next Meeting 

• Make contact and set up an appointment to meet with your client (after you get feedback from ME)
  • E-mail me the following information by Wednesday at NOON
    • Date of meeting
    • Time of meeting
    • Place of meeting
    • Contact person/who you are meeting with
• By  Friday (At the latest), have secured and met  a client
• Create Outlines for Formal Proposal (Outline of Proposal, based on notes from client meeting)

• Check out these examples: http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/props.html
• Discuss Gantt charts
• Excel Directions: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010346051033.aspx