WRA 453WRA 453Grant & Grant & Proposal WritingProposal Writing

Fall 2005Fall 2005

Bill Hart-DavidsonBill Hart-Davidson

hartdav2@msu.eduhartdav2@msu.edu

Session 1: Introductions; Guidelines; Individual Project Pages;

IntroductionsIntroductions

NameName Major/Year at MSUMajor/Year at MSU Career goals/interest in the Career goals/interest in the

coursecourse Interesting fact?Interesting fact?

Two broad goals for the Two broad goals for the semestersemester

1.1. To gain an understanding of the To gain an understanding of the genres associated with the social act genres associated with the social act of “proposing,” especially proposing of “proposing,” especially proposing projects in organizational settingsprojects in organizational settings

2.2. To gain an understanding of how best To gain an understanding of how best to coordinate the various genres of to coordinate the various genres of proposing in order to successfully proposing in order to successfully persuade others to support our persuade others to support our projectsprojects

Today in Class…Today in Class…

Touring Web Touring Web SiteSite

Class Format Class Format Syllabus, TextSyllabus, Text

ProjectsProjects Individual Individual

Project PageProject Page Intro e-mailIntro e-mail

The Resources PageThe Resources Page

www.msu.edu/~hartdav2/gpw.htmlwww.msu.edu/~hartdav2/gpw.html

Let’s Look at the Let’s Look at the SyllabusSyllabus

Course DescriptionCourse Description Policies and proceduresPolicies and procedures ProjectsProjects

And now for the schedule(s)…And now for the schedule(s)…

Contacting Bill H-DContacting Bill H-D

E-mailE-mailhartdav2@hartdav2@msumsu..eduedu

Office PhoneOffice Phone353-9184353-9184

AOL Instant MessengerAOL Instant Messengerbillhd30billhd30

Doing The NumbersDoing The Numbers

29 Class Meetings29 Class Meetings 3 major projects3 major projects 20+ In-class Exercises 20+ In-class Exercises 1 required book1 required book 4-5 readings from other sources4-5 readings from other sources

Getting to know you…Getting to know you…

1. Send me an e-mail introducing yourself

2. Tell me about your goals for this course, and how they mesh with your career goals

3. I will respond, attaching our first reading as a PDF

Post a project pagePost a project page

Your project page is any sort of web page where you can post assignments. This is how you’ll turn in many of your projects in this class.

You can use one of the templates on the GPW resources page and post it to your AFS account. Or…you can use another page you have…a blog, etc.

To Do this WeekTo Do this Week

Order the bookOrder the book Bookmark the class page, Bookmark the class page,

visit oftenvisit often Post your project pagePost your project page Send your intro e-mail to Bill Send your intro e-mail to Bill

H-DH-D

ReadingReading

Read Tardy for ThursdayRead Tardy for Thursday For next week, read Knoblauch For next week, read Knoblauch

ArticleArticle When you get the book… read When you get the book… read

“Intro” and Ch. 1 from “Intro” and Ch. 1 from WWBPWWBP and especially Ch. 2 in and especially Ch. 2 in WWBPWWBP

I will send you both articles when I respond to your intro e-mail