Dear Professor May,

The purpose of a proposal is to persuade the readers to do something. Proposals

are informative and persuasive writing because they attempt to educate the reader
and to convince that reader to do something. The genre that I chose was
persuasive writing because I was ultimately trying to get my audience to see why
my solution needed to be initiated. I decided on tone and format with the
knowledge of who my audience was. Once I figured out exactly who my audience
was I was able to determine that both my tone and format had to be formal
because of the status that my audience held. The way that I found my sources was
by going to google and typing in each question that I wanted to be answered
within my proposal. I evaluated my sources using the CRAAP test and toulmin
forum. The way that I analyzed the sources was by determining the credibility of
the author/publisher/source, the relevance it held to my topic, whether it was
current or out-of-date for my topic, and the amount of information on the source.
The way that I chose to synthesize the information from the sources was depending
on what the source gave information about. If it dealt with evidence for my claim I
chose to put that after stating what my claim was, the information that provided
background information about my topic was put in the paragraph following my
claim, the information that dealt with my solution was put towards the end. My
main claim was the constant rise in juvenile crime in Little Rock. The reason to
support my data was that according to the Arkansas Crime Information Center, in
the city of Little Rock juveniles ranked high in committing crimes such as simple
assault, intimidation, burglary, vandalism, shoplifting, drug/narcotic violations,
weapon law violations, and disorderly conduct. My warrant is that there are not
any affective youth outreach programs that target all youth and provide the help
that needs to be provided. I used language by speaking very fluent and intelligent
and I provided a lot of knowledge as well as evidence for everything stated. I dont
think I quite used power in this assignment. Every idea that was stated had some
kind of personal feeling to it. I revised my paper completely from the format,
audience, language, and formality. My teacher and my peers prompted me to
revise once I submitted my peer revision draft. To me, the conventions of a
proposal are claim, evidence and warrant. The way that I used these three was in
order to even begin my proposal I had to have a claim, and in support of my claim I

provided evidence, to give a broad understanding I had my warrant which was not
physically said but can be determined by reading my proposal. I documented my
work with blackboard, google docs, and Microsoft word. I frequently saved every
time I added or deleted something from my proposal. My whole proposal was
pretty much used in an electronic environment besides some of my research. I did
most of my work through computer. I used google docs to document my research
journal and used Microsoft word to document my actual proposal as well as used
google search engine for research purposes. What I have learned about solving
problems through writing is that you have to provide evidence for what you state.
You also have to provide some sense of credibility or your audience will ask what
makes you experienced in the topic. The most important thing I learned is you have
to provide facts but also focus on reeling in the audience and making them listen to
what you have to say. I learned a lot from this research project.

Sincerely,

TaShayla Meekins