Business writing

Business 100W Assignment III: Proposing a Solution or Improvement

Word Count: 1,000 to 1,250 words (required), not including executive summary Grammar Requirement: Underline one sentence demonstrating semicolon use Format: Business format with MLA in-text citations and Works Cited page Due to SafeAssign before class on Wednesday, May 15th In brief: In this essay, you will examine your company from an internal perspective and identify either a weakness that could be remedied or a positive aspect that could be further strengthened. This paper should propose a solution or improvement for that company, complete with budget and timeline, and do so in a business format (title page, executive summary, table of contents) with an MLA-formatted Works Cited page. Scenario: Due to a twist of fate (and some brilliant networking), you have bid farewell to CM Burns Industries and now work for the company you wrote about in paper #2. As one of your first tasks, you have been asked to create a proposal to benefit your new company. The goal of this paper is to craft a proposal based on some aspect of the research and evaluation you conducted in paper #2, offering the company and its leadership a realistic and practical suggestion to further strengthen the company. This proposal should either 1) take a company strength and offer a means to further improve upon it, or 2) address and remedy a specific company weakness. Any number of proposals could be made to satisfy this assignment, so you do have quite a bit of creative latitude here. Consider all relevant research conducted for paper #2, knowing that you may need to perform additional research to rise to the burden of proof. Stronger papers will likely include a number of secondary sources to support the framework of the proposal. Use the strategies from lecture, discussion, and your textbooks that you believe the most effective in accomplishing your goals. This paper should avoid “magical thinking”: this proposal must be specific, reasonable, actionable, and practical for that company. Timelines and budgets must be part of this proposal, and visual aids should be used to help explain or clarify. Counterarguments, in an effort to avoid the logical fallacy of slanting, should also be part of the response. You are welcome to use a targeted SWOT analysis as part of your brainstorming, but keep in mind that this is considered pre-writing and should not be a part of your final draft. You are welcome to use features from the second assignment, but you must cite these materials according to MLA standards—you will cite yourself as you would any other author, both in-text and in the Works Cited page. Submit your final paper to SafeAssign before class on Wednesday, May 15th. This assignment will be formatted in the same way as essay #2, and it must be cited thoroughly throughout and meticulously organized and proofread.