Final Project Guidelines -
Overview -This assignment must have a minimum of ten pages of written material (not to include optional charts, diagrams, pictures, the reference page, title page, or table of contents.)
Types of Projects (for all but CJ)
1. Imagine that you work for a company and then propose a project to the company to make a new, better product, or design a better means of doing a task. You might modify this in a way that it goes to more than your company. You can refine this as you see best.
2. Pretend to (or actually) respond to a RFP and write something to fulfill its requirements and win the bid/job. RFP forms are available on line and in Word's templates.
3. Write a proposal to solve a known problem--such as making credit transactions more secure or establishing better communications in an area that needs them (transit systems, early warning systems, etc.) Maybe you could address an ethical problem in your field.
4. Create a "project" that would benefit a community, or certain individuals. Perhaps you want to work with at-risk youth or minority high school kids to recruit them into your area of expertise or certain college majors to provide educational/cultural opportunities to benefit them and the community. Maybe you can reform or promote positive changes inside the field you are going to work in. You could propose a specific project that if done right will be good for the environment or provide better, safer drinking water. The best model to both describe and define a project like this would be to write a grant or to get a large company to fund the project as a charitable/outreach project. You can find generic grant forms on line or from agencies or corporations and the form will guide content and format for your paper. Word also has grant forms in its templates section.
Types of Projects for CJ/Law
1. Create a "project" that would benefit a community, or certain individuals. Perhaps you want to work with at-risk youth to try to keep them out of trouble, provide educational/cultural opportunities to benefit them and the community. Maybe you can reform or promote positive changes inside the law enforcement or justice community. You should propose a specific project that if done right will or can bring about social change. Things to consider are who your project serves, where it will take place, when (or how long), how it will be funded, staffed, performed. What the projects goals are. How you would evaluate progress and results. The best model to both describe and define a project like this would be to write a grant. You can find grant forms from agencies and the form will guide content and format for your paper.
2. Write a study of a situation, problem, perhaps the future of an aspect in your desired line of work. You could write about how new technology will affect methods of currently doing tasks-such as dashboard video and policing, or putting more officers on foot in troubled communities, or mandating classes in racial sensitivity training. If you are looking at becoming a lawyer, you might look at the need to increase diversity, to understand the effect of race on sentencing, etc. You should choose a subject/topic that can be covered in 10-15 pages. If you choose this route you will be writing a research paper and will be expected to have sources, citations, and follow standard practices and formats. The decision is yours, but I must approve your choice before you begin your work.
Of these two choices, I very prefer the first one because it requires more thought and imagination and it is more idealistic.
Steps (if doing a proposal) -
1. Abstract: A one page summary of the entire project.
2. Introduction: Who are you (organization, company, group-(not just an individual) and what are your specific interests in doing the project? What skills or assets do you and your organization offer? The purpose of this is to convince people or agencies to support your proposal. (one page or two pages)
3. Description of project: Some proposal models call this the narrative section. It's best to bullet this section rather than use paragraphs. (this is usually the longest section)
- What is the project-describe it and why it is important, how it works, where it will take place, etc. List your primary goals. Are there similar ideas, projects, or products in existence? Do they work well? Is yours better? Or, will yours be operating or giving service in places that are not served by existing operations? (In this area you need research and can describe and cite other projects; these things can also be documented in the Reference or Works Cited section at the end of your proposal (paper.) You will probably need in text citations here. This section might appear earlier in the document, possibly in the background section.
- You probably need a little background history? How long has the problem you are addressing existed? Have other ideas been tried? How did they work?
- Who will benefit from your project? Cast a wide net-not just the immediate people who will participate, but their families, communities and maybe even larger segments of society. But start small and work toward the larger ideas. This is a description of who the project serves.
- In more depth, discuss why is it needed, especially in the area, place, region that you propose to do it.
- How long will it take to be up and running? How long might it take to see the benefits appear in a significant way? How will you measure success? If you know or anticipate that there will be significant hurdles or problems to overcome, you can discuss them and how you plan to overcome them.
- Do you need or have partners? Maybe some government entity has to support you? How will this be accomplished? Most important projects can't be done solo, and if this is a grant proposal you definitely need partners.
- What will your project cost? How will you pay for this? Or maybe, how will it be paid for? What do you need, specifically, to make this work? Discussing staffing, facilities, etc. (You will need a budget here, expenses and income)
4. In the conclusion you might discuss again the positive aspects of your project if it succeeds. You could also discuss the negative consequences if nothing is done in this area.
5. You will definitely need a References page or Works Cited page. You should use the citation style called for in your major classes. Either APA or Chicago, usually.
6. You might include an appendix where you put supporting documents (though in the interest of saving paper, maybe links or one page of a document might do. Maybe graphs, charts, pictures could be useful here too. (This is NOT part of the basic page requirement).
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