ENGLISH
465: SPECIFICATION, BID, GRANT AND PROPOSAL WRITING
Quarter: Winter 2003-04
Time: MWF
Instructor: R. Rudnicki
Office
Hours: MWF
10:45-12:30 &
Email: rrudnicki@garts.latech.edu
Prerequisite: English 303
Required
Text
Description
English 465
will emphasize audience analysis, organization, style and credibility as they
relate to the process of writing solicited or unsolicited grant proposals. An
understanding of basic rhetorical principles from audience analysis to document
design will be assumed. Students will create original research, planning, or
implementation proposals of 15-18 pages based on needs they have identified.
Classes will be organized as writing workshops; attendance and participation
are mandatory.
Class
Policies
Review all Course Policies
for details concerning attendance, work ethic, missed work, late work, and
grading standards. This English 465 page and the Course Policies page comprise
your syllabus for this class.
Evaluation
Students
will be graded according to their ability to produce a professional, original
grant proposal from the early stages of conception to the finished document.
Although the timeline for submitting proposals will be based on the quarter
itself, and outside materials such as letters of commitment and recommendation
will be forgone, each student’s grant proposal will be based on practical,
realistic needs or goals and existing funding opportunities. Students will be
required to produce their graded English 303 proposals (or facsimiles) to use
as examples for the class. Refer to the following sites for examples of these
guidelines and RFP (request for proposal) sources:
Indiana
University Research Gateway: Proposal Development and Funding
University
of Virginia Research Sponsors
Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/contents.html
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/app/default.htm
Proposals
will be evaluated at several stages of process:
Assignment
1: 10% Researching opportunities, identifying needs, and matching
concepts with appropriate funding agencies, foundations, or companies
Assignment
2: 20% Contacting an agent and outlining the proposal’s rationale,
scope, methods, requirements, timetable, and outcome
Assignment
3: 20% Submitting a proposal draft and critiquing the drafts of
three peers
Assignment
4: 10% Revising the proposal and submitting a letter outlining
these revisions
Assignment
5:
Presenting a summary of the proposal to the class (a requirement for
submission—worth 10 points of final proposal)
Assignment
6: 40% Submitting the finished proposal
Class
Schedule
You
are responsible for the information in the required textbook. Specific daily
assignments and workshop activities will be announced in class. If you are not
in class to participate in those assignments and activities, up to one full
letter grade will be deducted from your approaching major assignment for each
missed class. Generally speaking, we will review, introduce, and discuss
concepts and approaches to a given week’s material on Monday, collaborate
on that material on Wednesday, and schedule individual conferences and other
workshop-style meetings covering areas of need on Friday.
WF Dec
3, 5: Greetings, Introduction
MWF Dec 8, 10,
12: WR (Writing Proposals) chapters 1-2
MWF Dec 15, 17,
19: WR 3-4, Assignment 1 Due Friday: sample
marks and corrections
MWF Dec 22, 24,
26: Christmas Holidays
MWF Dec 29, 31, Jan
2: Christmas Holidays
MWF Jan 5, 7,
9: WR 5-6
MWF Jan 12, 14,
16: M: discuss WR 5-6 & 7-8 and work on contact letters; W:
letter draft due for peer reviews; F: Editing workshop, Assignment 2 Due by end
of class
M Jan 19:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
WF Jan 21,
23: Wed: WR 9-10, Fri: No class; begin composing Proposal
Rough Draft (minimum 10 pages); sample sentences
assignment #2
MWF Jan 26, 28,
30: WR 11-12, Assignment 3 Due Friday, minimum 10 pages, bring four
copies to class; sample sentences #3
MWF Feb 2, 4,
6: Individual Conferences (required)
MWF Feb 9, 11,
13: Peer Reviews of Proposal Drafts Due; Revision Workshops,
Assignment 4 Due Friday
MWF Feb 16, 18,
20: Assignments 5 & 6 Due (presentations MWF, finished proposal
due F)
MW Feb 23, 25: Mardi
Gras Holidays
F Feb 27:
Conferences
M Mar 1:
Return Assignment 6, conclude