Writing 3 – Assignment description Proposal
“Proposal
for School Improvement”
Identify one area of improvement at your (internship)
school and suggest improvements. Provide 2 to 3 arguments for why this needs to
be improved and support the arguments with a wide variety of sources (written,
audio and audio-visual).
–
The
proposal should be visibly geared towards your specific internship school, so
make sure you clearly describe the target population at your school (level and
age group), and the demographic (city/rural/other). In other words: the piece
should not be a general treatise, but it
should be recognisably about
your specific school.
The Canvas page for Writing 3 provides guidance
and information on the structure and content of the Proposal in Modules 1, 2
and 3.
Source
Analysis
To make sure that your Proposal is both
convincing and professional, you will need to consult a wide variety of sources
to be able to support your arguments.
For this
assignment, you are asked to consult the following (number of) sources:
•
At
least two news articles, online articles or reports from online or library
archives
•
Approximately
one hour of play-on-demand or recorded audio-visual
materials (such a documentaries, interviews or TED talks)
•
Approximately
one hour of play-on-demand audio files
(such as podcasts or audio lectures)
Use the following format for your Source
Analysis:
APA information on sources
Useful information for essay
Comments on reliability
Written sources
Audio sources (+ length: total
needs to be about 60 minutes)
Audio-visual sources (+ length:
total needs to be about 60
minutes)
The Source Analysis should be displayed before the Proposal in the final portfolio.
PLEASE NOTE: the Source analysis does NOT replace
the Bibliography as it lists all sources consulted in the research process.
This means that the Source Analysis may include sources not directly referenced
in the essay. The Bibliography displays the actual sources referenced in the
essay and should always be included immediately after the
essay.
Learning
outcomes
The Proposal works on all the learning outcomes
for Writing 3, which are directly linked to the Landelijke Kennisbasis Engels.
In the proposal, you show:
–
that
you can effectively structure your writing so that the message is clear to the
reader, according to the genre requirements for a proposal
–
that
you can coherently summarise, synthesize and report on information from a wide
variety of sources
–
that
you can gracefully integrate source references to show what you base your
opinions on, according to the APA guidelines
–
that
you can express your thoughts in CEFR level C1/C2
–
that
you can write about your professional opinions is a formal, academic style
Topic: Mental Health Counseling at Yuverta
should be elaborated.
Arguments:
1.
High mental health troubles among high school students
2.
Social and emotional development stumped
3.
Early intervention and prevention
Thesis:
– Recognizing the critical role of mental health in academic and personal
development
– Mental health counselling -> how does it help
Yuverta Gouda should develop better mental health
counselling because mental health troubles are on the rise, social and
emotional development is stumped, and early intervention can solve a lot of
problems.
