Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach
Assignment in yellow. Preview of final added for reference.
The outline will be for Blood: Water Mission
Preparing for the Final Project: Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach
Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach
If you haven’t done so recently, review the “Preview of Your Final Project” criteria sheet. For this assignment, provide an outline with your goals, intentions, and approach for your Final Project.
Identify the role of the Community Organization for your project.
Please feel free to use any type of outline you would like, but keep in mind, you will need to cover the information below with consistency, continuity, and originality. Because this is an outline, you will have the opportunity to make changes to this as you progress through the project, but the more you can “nail down” here, the more you will be able to stay focused moving forward.
Note: If you use any resources in your outline, cite the publication(s), any direct quotations, and any summarized or paraphrased material. Use APA citation format for both your in-text and references page citations.
Keep in mind, any sources you choose should be no more than five (5) years old. This is part of the requirements for your Final Project.
· Title Your Project: Be concise; be catchy. Use your title to both draw your readers/audience in and to demonstrate what the project is about. Try to keep your titles within five or fewer words.
· Introduction: Describe the organization, the work they do, any key players within the organization, and why it may be interesting to your readers/audience. Include your thesis statement (a short description of the purpose of your work).
· Readers/Audience: Describe the readers/audience you will be directing your project toward. Consider what they know, what they might need from your work, and what they will expect. Briefly discuss how you will meet the needs of your readers/audience.
· Methods: Include a description of how you plan to gather and analyze your data (i.e. reviewing websites, reviewing related articles, interviews, analyzing similar organizations, and so on).
· Results: You likely haven’t found any results yet, but provide a description of what you hope to find or what you think you might find.
· Conclusion: Based on the information you have gathered so far, start identifying how what you’ve learned connects to your thesis and how it falls under the scope of service-learning and civic engagement. Write up a brief description of those connections.
· References Page: Include an APA style citation list of any sources you have used or are considering using in your project (this should appear on its own page at the end of your outline).
Preview of Your Final Project
Over the next few weeks we will be learning about service learning and investigating a community organization. You will begin to put this information together to evaluate the role of the community organization that you have chosen. You will support your ideas with the literature resources that you have found.
As a Paper
Your paper should be creative and interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned. It should be a minimum of 5-7 pages in length and you will use APA style formatting with a title page and reference section. You should use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, double-space your lines, and set your page up with one inch margins (See the APA Template included in the Course Resources folder)
For All Assignment Types
Your assignment should be well-organized and demonstrate an orderly flow of information that clearly addresses the subject chosen. In addition to the above criteria, your final project should include the following elements:
· The Community Organization: Clearly indicate the focus of the organization and the community needs that the organization. A brief historical background of the organization should also be included.
· Discuss any community partnerships that they have. Suggest additional partnerships that you feel they should have.
· Explore how the cross-cultural challenges and humanitarian considerations are involved.
· Demonstrate how the organization uses volunteers and the economic benefits associated with this (not just “free labor”).
· Illustrate any roadblocks that the organization has faced or potential could face and how they did or might find solutions.
· Describe the organization’s vision for the future.
· Indicate what areas in which you feel the organization could improve. What challenges (technological, political, economic, laws and regulations, community-based initiatives, educational, etc.) will they need to overcome?
· Discuss potential ways you might be able to contribute to the organization. How could your own interests, talents, and skills benefit this organization?
Note: You will need to include a minimum of ten (10) sources to support your project claims. Additionally, make sure the sources you choose are no more than five (5) years old.
Criteria:
· Title your Project
· Introduction: Begin with the attention-getter, tie in the background information, and end the introduction with your thesis.
· Body:
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o Clearly identify the topic of each section. The topic must be a statement, not a question, and should begin with your own ideas and your own words.
o After identifying your topic, use quotations or paraphrase from your sources to help illustrate the point you are making (be sure to identify the author(s) and source(s)).
o After you have given support, spend a sentence or two explaining how the example(s) support the section topic.
o A compilation of your research, your literature review, your methods, (how the data was collected or generated and analyzed), and your results should be included in the body of your project.
· Conclusion:
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o Restate your thesis. This means that you say about the same thing as you did in your thesis, but you say it differently.
o After stating your thesis, restate the topics from each of your body sections and emphasize what is important for your audience/readers to remember.
o End your conclusion with a call to action that illustrates what your audience/readers should do with the information you presented.
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