The features of this Proposal Assignment are to identify an issue or something that needs to be changed by identifying/calling a particular audience to action with solutions. Some of the easy aspects of this assignment are to identify the audience being directly affected by a certain issue and identifying the problem itself. However, finding possible solutions that will actually fix the issue is difficult to come up with sometimes. Many times this happens when people are afraid of failing at their attempt or cannot come up with a solution everyone is able to work with. I think some good topics for this assignment can be relating school issues such as making ASU smoke-free, lowering tuition on campus or reducing littering in my neighborhood.
In the Sesame Street video Kermit the frog tries to convince Cookie Monster to guess what is is he has in the mystery box. He tries to persuade Cookie Monster to guess what is in his box by telling him he will keep whatever he has inside as a prize. However, Cookie Monster has another proposal for Kermit the frog. Since Cookie Monster wasn't able to guess, he argues that Kermit should still give him a cookie using pathos. Cookie Monster uses pathos in his argument by mentioning their friendship reminding him how caring one should be to friends. Although it isn't very convincing in my point of view, it convinces Kermit to still give him a cookie since they are friends and what Cookie Monster said was right about their friendship. Cookie Monster also tells Kermit that he is handsome. These are all forms of appeals to emotion that strongly convinced Kermit to give the cookie anyway. Using the formula on the PowerPoint for making a proposal about the Sesame Street video, I would say: Kermit should always give Cookie Monster cookies because they are good friends and good friends care and are nice to each other.
The latest proposal I have heard about regards recalling Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office here on campus. This petition for recall is specifically for people who are registered to vote in Arizona. They mentioned their purpose and reasons for thinking he should be recalled and what voters can do to solve the issue, which in this case is sign a petition.
Outline: Based from page 398 in Everything is An Argument.
a) Claim: ASU should give freshman students better and more housing options with lower prices.
b) Solves significant problem: Keeps students involved and happy with their transition from high school to college.
c) Present good reasons for proposal: If done, more freshman students will select campus housing and continue to do so in future years increasing housing profit for the school.
d) Show proposal is workable: Both the school and student will benefit. Students will be happy by selecting a room of their preference regarding style, price and location. The school will benefit by having more people interested in housing, and earning more money.
Audience in a proposal is very important because, you can't find a possible solution to an issue if you cannot find the audience that needs to be called to action. If the claim is not addressed to the correct audience, then no action will be done toward it and will not help decrease the problem.
Looking from Multiple
Perspectives
STEP ONE: IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS: In order to write a
successful proposal, you need to you need to examine multiple perspectives:
you’ll want to represent as many people’s interests as possible as you describe
your problem and solution, and you’ll want to understand your resisting
audience’s inclinations as you pitch your solution.
For the following arguments, identify different people who are
involved in the issue, people who are
directly impacted by the problem posed, people who officiate the policies
involved, people who have legitimate concerns or investments in the
conversation, or other kinds of stakeholders.
· McKemy
Junior High must reconsider its decision to cut music programs.
a. Students attending McKemy Junior High, since they might become discouraged about attending school if it's their favorite class.
b. Employees/teachers of the school who teach these music programs, since they will loose their jobs.
c. The school may be affected by seeing grade drops in students, since it is highly more likely that students do better in academics when participating in performing arts classes.
* ASU’s dry campus policy is injurious to the
students and should be amended.
a. ASU students might be highly more influenced to consume alcoholic beverages by this.
b. President of ASU Micheal Crow can make the school look "bad" by encouraging students to drink on campus.
c. School and class enrollment may decrease by making ASU seem less educational.
* I propose that the ASU adopts a stricter campus
security in order to keep vagrants and other potentially dangerous individuals
off the school grounds.
a. ASU's administration, since they have to provide funds.
b. Students will be benefited with campus security.
c. Employees/security's/ASU police will possibly be needed more to carry out this proposal.
STEP TWO: Develop
Context: how do these stakeholders interact with one another? Do they have
the same interests, attitudes, or ideas? What do they agree on and what do they
disagree on? Pick one of the debates from the first page and develop a profile
for each stakeholder: what are their commonly held values, objectives, or
beliefs? What kinds of information or experiences get factored into their
decisions?
McKemy Junior High must reconsider its decision to cut music programs.
#1: Students-
- Commonly held values/objectives/beliefs: most enjoy performing arts classes to relieve and balance out stress, might feel like they have one less class to go to.
- Information/ Experiences factored into their decisions: Whether they like the class or not, their past experiences with professors, which programs will replace music?
#2: Employees-
- Commonly held values:/objectives/beliefs: Less job opportunities
- Information/ Experiences factored into their decisions: They might want to know by how much it will be cut down, and their alternatives.
#3: School-
- Commonly held values/objectives/beliefs: Might feel like students need the class to succeed academically, might view it as a money cut which can be an advantage too.
- Information/ Experiences factored into their decisions: How the students were performing in music classes in the past, how much money is being invested to fund these programs/classes, what is the alternative?
STEP THREE: Research: What would be the best method to
represent or address these perspectives in a proposal essay?
#1 Students-
- Attend other classes to balance out heavy load of homework.
- Provide positive alternative for cutting back the program with something they will also enjoy. (karate, yoga, gym)
#2 Employees-
- Provide employees/teachers of these programs ways in which they have the chance to still have a job opportunity.
#3 School-
- Help music teachers from the program obtain new jobs, if they are not available in that specific school.
- Come up with classes/programs that can replace the music program which can help students academically as well as balancing stress out. (Like adding yoga classes)
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