SU Addressing CAN Compensation at Good Hope Hospital Project

Goals:

Identify knowledge, training, or some other problem/opportunity within an accessible context (that is, an office/department/organization/company that you can feasibly gain direct information from). In this proposal, you are identifying what that opportunity/problem is, why it exists, what the best way to address it is, and how you plan on addressing it.

Requirement:

The Proposal should contain the following sections:

Front Matter (in this order)*:

I. Reflection Memo:

II: Audience Selection 

• In this section, you will identify this project’s Gatekeeper, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary audience members, following the model seen in the examples and covered in the (planning and organizing proposals and technical reports pdf).
• For each audience, describe who they are in detail, their backgrounds, their current position(s), their relationship to the problem and how the Proposal document will affect them.

III. Cover Letter: Your cover letter (otherwise referred to as a “letter of transmittal” will be addressed to your gatekeeper. It will introduce your credentials, and serve as a pitch – a brief, attention-grabbing description – of your proposal document. 

IV. Cover Page: A single page with your Project Title (a title that clearly and succinctly identifies the topic of the document, the audience/context, as well as the document type) and your name. You may add other essential information as you find necessary.

V. Table of Contents: This should include all the following sections appearing after the table of contents.

• Part I: Introduction and Context 
  • Provide a meaningful introduction, providing as many specific details as possible about the organization/company/etc you are addressing. Start broad and move to the more specific context of your project.
  • For example (not to be replicated), if you were discussing something related to ADHD on campus, addressed to the Health Center, in this section you might start off identifying what ADHD is, providing stats and figures. Then, you could talk about college-age populations specifically. Finally, you would introduce the specific context of the college.
  • Establish the problem or opportunity, providing as much evidence as possible. Be compelling.
  • In this section, you should integrate the minimum four (4) sources, or others, collected for the first section of the Annotated Bibliography. (I attached the Annotated Bibliography pdf)
• Part II: Literature Review and Available Models
  • Here you will want to identify examples of other offices/departments/organizations/companies that have encountered the same issue and who may have already developed solutions. Likely, your audience is not the first to encounter the problem you’ve identified. Who else has attempted to address the same or similar problem, and how have they gone about it?
  • This section should not simply be a list, providing a summary one-by-one of each of your resources. Instead, you are expected to organize and group your sources in a meaningful way, based on the most important themes/types of resources chosen.
  • In this section, you should integrate the minimum eight (8) sources, or others, collected for the second section of the Annotated Bibliography.

Part III. Analysis and Synthesi

• The goal of this section is to identify the main options under consideration, with the presumption that there are usually multiple ways to address any issue. Based on your research in the previous section, what are the main options that seem most viable and why?
• Clearly identify what issues are most important, the main criteria that are important to your audience/context, and the pros and cons of the options under consideration.
• Rather than jumping straight from your research to your final proposed idea, you are using this section to show readers that there are multiple possibilities and that each of the possibilities have strengths and weaknesses according to the criteria most relevant to your chosen context.
• One approach to identifying criteria is using SMARTIE goals
• Though not required, many students will end this section with a Decision Matrix to clearly summarize the potential solutions they’ve identified and how they compare according to the chosen criteria (which may include the SMARTIE goals).
  • For more on what a Decision Matrix looks like, with examples, go https://asq.org/quality-resources/decision-matrix

Part IV: Proposed Solution

• Based on your assessment of the problem/opportunity, and the available research and models you have identified, outline your final solution in detail.
• While in the previous section, you outlined all the possibilities and how they fit the various criteria you identified, here you are explaining why you have chosen a single solution as the best possible option. Since many options might be potentially successful, it is important to explain to the reader why you have made your decision.
• Discuss how your final solution might be implemented in your chosen context.

Part V: Conclusion 

• Your conclusion should provide a succinct, effective summary of your proposal, while also mentioning what the next steps are for moving forward.

Part VI: Bibliography 

• The bibliography should contain at least ten (10) sources and, along with your in-text citations, be provided in APA Format.
• As mentioned in the Annotated Bibliography, if you feel an alternative format would be more appropriate for your particular topic, you can choose that format instead and be consistent throughout your document. Please be sure to explain this decision-making in your final memo.