Thursday April 2

• On Deck:

• Tips on Finishing your Methods section  

• Rounding out your descriptive outline -- with emphasis on starting drafts of your evaluations 

• Have Coach review your Primary Research tools 

• Due Next Class: 

• Drafts of these sections for Feasibility Studies:

• Criteria  (Good Draft ready for Revision and/or Editing)

• Overview of Alternatives (Good Draft ready for Revision and/or Editing)

• Method (Finished/ready for Editing/Proofreading)  

• Evaluation of Alternatives  (Rough Draft with "stubs" of research and initial writing) 

• Drafts of these sections for Proposals:

• Problem (Rough Draft that breaks down the current [golfer pitch] problem in two other specified ways for each of the two courses)

• Objectives (Good Draft ready for revision and editing processes)

• Solutions (Good Draft ready for revision and editing processes)

• Method Good Draft ready for revision and editing processes, including the following:

• Resources

• Schedule

• Qualifications  

• Management 

Final Tips:

In Addition to Anderson's suggestions about telling your readers about your primary and secondary research strategies, ensure you:

1. Include, as most did in the plan, some discussion of your research techniques and media more specifically.
2. Shorten or omit many research questions that would be too obvious to your readers.  Keep research questions that will clarify the goals or findings of your report
3. Include a paragraph on your 'collaboration method' -- noting a few of your better individual qualifications.
4. Include a paragraph on your writing process, noting some collaboration with your instructor, revisions, and (vs.) editing processes.  Note: this may be something that needs the final touch at the end of the project.

Quick Review of Anderson's Tips:

1. Move through your evaluation of the (feasibility of) several alternatives in a logical order, putting your most important criteria first, and moving to the leas important criteria (start for instance with sustainability or cost or student satisfaction, then move on to the next criteria).  This ordering is somewhat subjective, but as always, consider what your readers will likely want to see first.
2. In your evaluation you can spend several pages breaking down things like 'cost' or 'desirability' -- as each may require several 'sub-criteria' from survey questions or from your decisions about how much you 'itemize' things like costs.  For instance: 
1. Cost:
1. Current operating expenses
2. Projected operating expenses
3. Staffing
4. Changes to Contract rates... 
2. Or see WikiHow for throwback fun
3. Dismiss Alternatives that become obviously unsuitable -- WHEN THEY FAIL TO MEET YOUR CRITERIA.
1. Explain this briefly in this section and in the INTRODUCTION or OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVES.   Your call.  

One Additional Writing Strategy

1. Create a descriptive outline today for the Evaluation Section.  Move logically and fill in 'what you know' (from what sources)  and 'what you need to know' (from what sources):
1. Alternative 1: X
1. Criteria 1:
1. 'what you know' (from what sources)  
2. and 'what you need to know' (from what sources): 
2. Criteria 2:
1. 'what you know' (from what sources)  
2. and 'what you need to know' (from what sources): 
3. Criteria 3:
1. 'what you know' (from what sources)  
2. and 'what you need to know' (from what sources):  
2. Alternative 2:   Y
1. Criteria 1:
1. 'what you know' (from what sources)  
2. and 'what you need to know' (from what sources): 
2. Criteria 2:
1. 'what you know' (from what sources)  
2. and 'what you need to know' (from what sources): 
3. Criteria 3:
1. 'what you know' (from what sources)  
2. and 'what you need to know' (from what sources): 
4. ... 

I'll bring more tips next class focused on writing these sections usably and persuasively... but let's focus on INVENTING this section, by finding answers and structuring this draft.