Communications First Draft

Write a first draft of your Portfolio Project.

For the Portfolio Project, you are creating a proposal written in formal style and using at least two research sources

to support your proposal. You are expected to cite those sources both in the text of your proposal and on the

references page at the end. A number of assignments for this course are projects that build this one, so as you

work through this course you will collect source material and ideas that relate to this project. You will use the

information you locate to make a persuasive argument regarding a campaign of your design to the hypothetical

college board of directors that supports, explains, and defends your campaign idea with solid facts and logical

argument based on source evidence. You will create a campaign idea based on source material and create a

proposal paper that works to persuade the board of directors at your hypothetical school to adopt your new

budget.

Campaign topic 

Propose a campaign to decrease the budget but keep the same services at a hypothetical college (you

make up this information - college name, number of students, etc) that has an issue with overspending

and needs to make some changes to stay within their budget. For this proposal, you will find sources that

explain how to create a budget and stay within it for a university, how to decrease spending for a

university without losing services, statistics and facts to support your argument, and examples of other

universities that utilized similar ideas to cut spending that were successful to back your ideas. 

The Principle Elements:

• Cover/Title page

• Table of Contents and List of Figures

• Executive Summary (Never longer than one page)

• Body (3-4 pages)

• References (at least two recent, reliable research sources from within the last five years must be cited)

• Appendices (if any used)

This is the assignment below. Then the second part will will be the whole paper. 

Criteria for this first draft:

1. Include your cover/title page with the title of your proposal centered in the middle of the page, your full name, and the date you submit it. This should all be double-spaced.
2. The body – this must be at least 3 pages in the portfolio project typed and double-spaced, so this first draft should be a miniature version of that body and have a length of 1.5 pages in length. This does not include the Cover/title page or the References page.
3. Format a References page of full citations of your source(s). For this first draft, you must use at least one recent research source no more than five years old. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find this source.
4. Do NOT include your Table of Contents, Lists of Figures, Executive Summary, or or Appendices at this time. A writer of a proposal does these last.

This is a draft for your instructor to review and therefore worth no points. However, completing this in Module 6 will prepare you for the peer review assignment which is due in the discussion forum the first day of Module 7