Proposal: Sentence outline
Consider the wide variety of organizations that seek
Proposal: Sentence outline
Consider the wide variety of organizations that seek volunteer participation or support Select one organization from the attached links on the GCC Community Engagement calendar that you believe is deserving of volunteer support. (Do not invent one and do not choose a organization that is not linked below.) Considering your audience of peers, write a proposal. using the Monroe Motivated Sequence, urging a specific call to action in support of that particular organization. The proposal will involve documented research of a specific nature.
Ultimately that call to action should constitute a commitment of time or money from your audience– that is, the audience is requested to join/get involved to aid the organization: to give blood, to volunteer at a neighborhood watch, to take part in a run or walk for a cause, to foster or adopt, or to make a specific financial contribution (what will their contribution provide?) . Their support will ultimately benefit the organization which provides a solution to a significant need in the community.
View then make your choice from the following links listed on the GCC Community Engagement Calendar: (Click here) VolunteersLinks to an external site.
Consider that your proposal for a call to action will be in competition with many other worthy organizations (or similar proposals for the same organization) requesting membership, support, time, or money.
Devise your organizational plan as follows (using the Monroe Motivated Sequence)
I. Attention– Call attention to the situation. Why should this issue be of importance to your audience? (Resist the urge to announce your organization at the start!) Consider ethos and pathos as two possible approaches to employ.
II. Need– Show there is a need to be met. What problem exists to be solved?
III. Satisfaction– Establish how the need can be satisfied. How will your proposed organization solve that need?
IV. Visualization– Help your audience to see the changes that will result from their support. How will things be changed or improved? How might their support make matters better?
V. Action– What kind of specific action by the audience is required to bring about the change? What should your audience do to move the proposal forward?
This proposal will require some research, as you will need to develop evidence in the need, satisfaction, visualization aspects of the writing. Anticipate your audience’s reservations about your proposal and the practicality of your claim. (Will it cost too much money? Take too much time? Will the action even solve the problem? Is the organization already sufficiently-supported? Is this cause worthy over others? Does your audience have the required skills needed? )
Remember that your request for membership, time and/or money will be in competition for limited resources within your audience. How will you establish credibility and ultimately appeal to them that this organization is deserving over the many other organizations that vie for their support? The success of the proposal depends as much on your individual pitch as it does on the selection of a worthy organization.
A good starting point is to first make sure that your organization is still active through an email or phone contact on the page (link). You don’t want to do outside research only to discover that the organization is now no longer operating. . Having a listing on the site does not guarantee the organization is still functioning (or that th elink is active). That check-in contact should be the first step, so you have time to make another choice for your proposal, if needed.
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This argument is typed as a sentence outline (approximately 2 pages) using the organizational plan and labels of the Monroe Sequence specified above and submitted as a PDF download below. Even though your rough draft is in outline format, your final draft (which will be in an essay format based on your outline) will require a Works Cited page typed in MLA Format for sources referenced in your proposal, so keep careful notes from where you draw your research.
You should incorporate the following research sources on your Works Cited page and cite appropriately in the proposal essay:
1. An outside source to draw evidence related to the need step (a journal article, a newspaper article, relevant web site, etc.,) to support that “need” exists
2. An outside source to draw evidence related to the satisfaction step ( a journal article, a newspaper article, relevant web site, etc.,) to support that this organization is the solution to the problem (need).
3. The by-laws, mission, or prospectus of the organization (see the link) for detailed evidence used in the satisfaction or visualization stage.
4. Interview (phone or email) with an identified authority (community advisor, officer of the organization, or some relevant administrator) from which to draw quotations for the solution, visualization, or action stage.
5. Interview with an identified witness (a current or former participant/volunteer in the organization) from which to draw quotations for the solution, visualization, or action stage. (Common experience could also satisfy this component, if you able to draw from your own experience or people you know.)
This assignment will require the following components for evaluation: sentence outline; peer reviews; final draft with MLA Works Cited page (5 sources in appropriate MLA format).
See the following link, for further instruction in creating a SENTENCE outline:
/courses/50504/pages/resource-for-outlines?module_item_id=g8c1eb54319a68b796aa7e5acce155046
The following link will guide you to library resources for MLA citation:
https://campusguides.glendale.edu/cite/mla9Links to an external site.