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Proposal Assignment

This page presents teaching and learning resources for the proposals section of the technical writing course.

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Slides and Exercises


This module of the course uses a proposal for a design project to teach students the principles of writing effective proposals. The proposal for the design project is an effective assignment because students have significant content to communicate to an actual audience.

Teaching and Learning Slides: Forthcoming.

Exercises. Forthcoming
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Assignment, Templates, and Models


Write a proposal for the design concept that your design team will prototype. Follow the proposal guidelines given in the template below. In the actual course that we teach at Penn State, this proposal is submitted for a content grade in the design course and a style and form grade in the writing course.
Proposal Guidelines and Template
Proposal Model
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