WRA 453 Grant Proposal Writing Fall 2005 Bill Hart Davidson hartdav2 msu edu Session 1 Introductions Guidelines Individual Project Pages Introductions Name Major Year at MSU Career goals interest in the course Interesting fact Two broad goals for the semester 1 2 To gain an understanding of the genres associated with the social act of proposing especially proposing projects in organizational settings To gain an understanding of how best to coordinate the various genres of proposing in order to successfully persuade others to support our projects Today in Class Touring Web Site Class Format Syllabus Text Projects Individual Project Page Intro e mail The Resources Page www msu edu hartdav2 gpw html Let s Look at the Syllabus Course Description Policies and procedures Projects And now for the schedule s Contacting Bill H D E mail hartdav2 msu edu Office Phone 353 9184 AOL Instant Messenger billhd30 Doing The Numbers 29 Class Meetings 3 major projects 20 In class Exercises 1 required book 4 5 readings from other sources Getting to know you 1 Send me an e mail introducing yourself 2 Tell me about your goals for this course and how they mesh with your career goals 3 I will respond attaching our first reading as a PDF Post a project page Your project page is any sort of web page where you can post assignments This is how you ll turn in many of your projects in this class You can use one of the templates on the GPW resources page and post it to your AFS account Or you can use another page you have a blog etc To Do this Week Order the book Bookmark the class page visit often Post your project page Send your intro e mail to Bill H D Reading Read Tardy for Thursday For next week read Knoblauch Article When you get the book read Intro and Ch 1 from WWBP and especially Ch 2 in WWBP I will send you both articles when I respond to your intro email