Proposal Plan Memo

The proposal plan memo is the start of one of the biggest assignment for this course.  We put into groups of three to four members.  My group consisted of Ely Martinez, Jasmine Flores, and Thomas Beaumont.  This why in other assignments, regarding the group project, there are individual works from them for examples. I was not too sure about a group project because of the fact that my grade will be relying on three other people’s contributions and skills.   

The proposal plan memo asks for your group to let the professor know what will be your group’s topic, who is it for, and how will your group complete it.  It discusses why this topic is a problem.  Your will also need to talk about how this problem is relevant to a specific audience.  The audience should be someone very easy for your group to gear directly towards.  It will make it a much easier process if you do this. Your group could also discuss on the workload or position assigned to each group member. 

In my group proposal plan we decided on the proposal to implement a sex education program in Lubbock Independent School District.  We focused our attention on Amanda Eldredge, a health educator for Texas Tech, as our audience.  We described in our memo the current problem that is relating to this topic and our solution.  The memo also has a chart of how we are delegating certain tasks and goals for this project.  Your group can actually create a chart or anything else that would let the professor know how you guys are delegating things.  One of the best decisions we made was to create our own weblog on WordPress to communicate with each other.  We are all very busy with jobs and other courses.  This was a great way to post any comments and work to each other.  It helped us tremendously.   

Your groups should want to start being organized from this point on.  It will help with the process of writing the final report. We had a plan on our memo on delegating responsibilities, but it changed as we were further into our project.  This is actually fine if your plan changes.  You will start to learn what strengths each group member has, causing a shift in responsibilities.  This first memo for the project is just creating a framework for the report and presentation that will be due later.  The memo should be edited for and grammatical errors and typos.  There are about two to three other students that are able to help you with editing now.  I still recommend you also have a reliable person outside your group edit the memo.  We did not take advantage of our professor’s help in the beginning of the group project.  This reflected in our grades.  We were all not happy with a couple of the grades we first received.  Then we decided a group to use our professor as our editing strategy.  Your group should actually do this from the beginning.  Your group would probably receive better grades than we did from the start. 

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Proposal Plan Memo