STEP ONE: IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS: In order to write a
successful proposal, you need to you need to examine multiple perspectives:
you’ll want to represent as many people’s interests as possible as you describe
your problem and solution, and you’ll want to understand your resisting
audience’s inclinations as you pitch your solution.
For the following arguments, identify different people who
are involved in the issue, people who
are directly impacted by the problem posed, people who officiate the policies
involved, people who have legitimate concerns or investments in the
conversation, or other kinds of stakeholders.
*McKemy
Junior High must reconsider its decision to cut music programs.*
a. Parents of Students
b. School Administration
c. School Board Members
*ASU’s dry campus policy is injurious to the
students and should be amended.*
a. Students
b. ASU Staff
c. Surrounding Communities
* I propose that the ASU adopts a stricter campus
security in order to keep vagrants and other potentially dangerous individuals
off the school grounds.*
a. ASUPD
b. School Administration
c. State Government
STEP TWO: Develop
Context: how do these stakeholders interact with one another? Do they have
the same interests, attitudes, or ideas? What do they agree on and what do they
disagree on? Pick one of the debates from the first page and develop a profile
for each stakeholder: what are their commonly held values, objectives, or
beliefs? What kinds of information or experiences get factored into their
decisions?
#1:
The School Administration
team and the School Board members would both be on the same page in this
situation. Both would be hard to convince
not to cut the programs because they are trying to conserve money on a tight
budget.
The parents would be
the opposite, and would be in total support of anything that would save the
programs because they want to have all of the programs and opportunities available
for their children. This is because the
more options they have to involve their children, the more well-rounded they
become as people as they grow towards adulthood.
#2:
I believe that the
staff and surrounding communities would both be on the same page and easily
convinced to create this plan, because it would better their classroom environments
and increase the safety of the day to day lives of the general public by
eliminating the stiff influence of alcohol.
The opinion of the
students would be harder to sway because of their over indulgence in the
substances and the enjoyment that comes from it.
#3:
The ASUPD and school administration would gladly back this
and would easily be convinced after being show a few statistics of the benefits
more law enforcement would have on the campus environment and for the increase
of the police force.
The issue would come when trying to convince the government
to support the idea. The government is
always trying to keep a tight and balanced budget, and this proposal would take
funding, which would be a hard approval to gain.
STEP THREE: Research: What would be the best method to
represent or address these perspectives in a proposal essay?
#1:
The best idea to propose this idea was create a plan
where the music program takes its skills and performances and becomes a self-funded
program and does not rely on the school funding to exist.
#2:
The best idea to propose this idea would be to create an
argument where it is explained that if something is not done now then the
situation will get worse, after showcasing the horrible statistics that
represent the current situation.
#3:
The best idea to propose this idea would be to show the
government through statistics of how much the program would cost verses the
amount of funding they would be saving from the amount of crime that would be
reduced and make sure that the values balance or that the funding is less and
will save them money.
