Proposal

Overall Purpose
1. What are you writing?
I am writing the proposal for the group project.
2. What prompts you to write?
I am writing to fulfill the deadline and to present a plausable proposal to Professor Ricker.
3. What outcomes do you desire?
I desire positive feedback regarding the preparation and supporting material I provide regarding the assigned requirements.
4. What outcome does your reader desire?
My reader desires the same.

Reader Profile
1. Who is your primary reader?
My primary reader is Professor Ricker.
2. What is your reader's relationship to you?
The reader is my professor for English 402.
3. What are your reader's job title and responsibilities?
My reader is an adjunct professor of English at WSUV and is responsible for guiding student's learning in technical and professional writing.
4. Who else might read your communication?
As I am posting this as a blog, my readers could be anyone from my classmates, group members, or anyone who accesses this site.
5. How familiar is your reader with your subject?
My reader is keenly familiar with my subject as it was assigned by them.
6. how familiar is your reader with your specialty?
My reader has some familiarity with my specialty in writing with the assignments that I have submitted.

Situational Analysis
1. What events and circumstances influence the way you should write?
I should be motivated to write because I am interested in my topic and I am commited to doing my best to fulfill the requirements to the best of my ability.
Usability Objectives (Reader's Tasks)
1. What are the key questions your reader will ask while reading?
My reader will ask questions of my product such as:
What is this product?
How does it differ than a similar product?
Is the proposed product better than what I have previously seen? In general, is it credible, believable, convincing?
2. How will your reader search for the answer? (The reader may use more than one strategy.)
x Sequential reading from beginning to end
Selective reading, as when using a reference book (What key terms will your reader look for?)
__ Other (Explain.)
3. How will your reader use the information you provide?
x Compare point by point (What will be the points of comparison?)
x Attempt to determine how the information you provide will affect him or her.
__ Attempt to determine how the information you provide will affect his or her organization.
__ Follow instruction step by step
__ Other (Explain.)

Persuasive Objectives (Reader's Attitudes)
1. What is your reader's attitude toward your subject? Why? What do you want it to be?
My reader has an unbiased opinion towards my subject because that is how grading is to be done. I want my reader to be biased TOWARDS, or in approval of my product.
2. What is your reader's attitude toward you? Why? What do you want it to be?
My reader's attitude towards me is either unbiased or negative. I want my reader's attitude towards me to be positive that I understand and work proficiently in their area of instruction.

Stakeholders
1. Who, besides your readers, are stakeholders in your communication?
I am a stakeholder in my communication as it affects my grade. Also,my groupmembers ultimately are stakeholders in my communication as the outcome will also affect their grades.
2. How will they be affected by it?
These student's grades will be affected, so they will be thus affected.

Constraints
1. What expectations, regulations, or other factors limit the way you can write?
I have a limited amount of time in which to complete this proposal, a set of structured instructions to carry out,and state and university laws/policies to abide by when writing this proposal.

Rhetoric-a definition and everyday examples

When we talk about rhetoric, some of us don't immediately know what we are referring to,others know briefly the context of the term,and still yet others understand proficiently the context and working examples of the term-RHETORIC. For our purposes, we will assume that collectively we have a brief understanding of its meaning and context. By the end of this blog, we will all have a working knowledge of the context and basis for the application of this term.
Rhetoric, according to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, is defined as "the art of speaking or writing effectively" In other words relating to business, rhetoric consists of the foundational principles of effectively communicating in speaking or writing in a professional setting. Examples of such could be, a professional spoken proposal your boss may direct you to present to market a new product you recommended, a memo that a director may require at the beginning of the week to follow up with your weekly tasks, or perhaps a letter written to the president of your company requesting an alteration in company policy. All of these represent formal styles of rhetoric that you and I may use in business to persuade our audience. These individuals that make up our audience may refer to our colleagues, our supervisors, director, management, or even president and CEO. No matter if we are addressing our colleague in the same department through an email or the CEO of a large corporation, we are using the same techniques and style of rhetoric to persuade our audience to DO something! If our audience does not respond to what we want them to DO, we have not used rhetoric. It is always our goal to communicate in such a way that builds our reputation and brings credibility to ourselves, our departments,and ultimately our employer. If we have done this effectively-we have used RHETORIC.
With a brief understanding of the contextual meaning of the term rhetoric, we may now undergo various business communications with a goal in mind: communicate effectively what we want someone in position to DO because of our communication. As we follow the principles of rhetoric we will be effective in communicating what we want done and our goals will be met with more proficiency.

A very long but productive week...

In respect to writing, I propose that the more a person reads the better they tend to write. This is true for those that usually love to read because they naturally write proficiently. If you are like me, I tend to read for assignments and therefore as a typical undergraduate student-have lots of experience exposing myself to the words and works or others. This provides me an opportunity to love to read and write-thus benefiting society in general.

First Night...so far so good :)

Tonight has really been a great! We spoke together as a class about the expectations of English 402 and I'm really excited to be able to build on my extensive writing skills. I feel like I have alot to bring to this course, having taken advanced placement courses in English all throughout high school as well as university courses up to this point.

If I had a goal for this course it would be to re-align my opinion of English courses in general and build a strong professional feel to my writing in general.
For those that don't know me-my name is Drew Jones, I am a transfer student from Utah State University, and as stated I am a Marketing major. I am currently attending Lower Columbia College as well, working, and obviously attending classes at WSU-Vancouver-so as you would suspect my life is busy would be an understatment for an antecdote :)
I am thoroughly impressed with the fact that we will have guest speakers as I've had great experiences in the past with guest speakers in other classes at Utah State University. I feel that this arrangement will give us as students a more rounded knowledge of writing as it relates to real-life business everyday. Well, I think this pretty much suffices what I wanted to relay so far..until next time!