Lessons from Implementation Plans

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Lessons from Implementation Plans
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Executive Summary briefly (1-2 pages) presents
these items

• sustainability problem
• rationale for your project, and therefore for
  your plan
• research methods of your investigation and
  evaluation of solutions, including criteria
• technologies and processes investigated, with
  findings
• implementation plan based on findings and
  conclusions of investigation
• Start and completion dates
• Cost with brief justification

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In other words . . .

• Include enough information about your
  investigation and your proposed plan to answer
  critical questions about rationale, budget and
  timeline.

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The ES is a stand-alone document.

• Do not refer to any sources, pages or graphics
  included in the rest of the proposal.
• You may include a graphic in the ES if you
  believe it will help the understanding of the
  reader, but do not number or title it.

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Build your plan on top of what you
have already done.
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Build your plan on top of what you have already
found.

• At beginning of IP section, make clear what
  research you have already accomplished and what
  remains to be done to fulfill the grant.
• Previous research produced your findings
  (described in Tech. Description section). You did
  this for free.
• What remains to be done are the tasks of your
  plan. You are applying for for these.

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If your plan is for more research

• Link your findings (previous research ) with
  proposed research tasks.
• Some of you have not yet done enough research to
  justify the tasks proposed.
• If you propose doing lab work, which facilities
  will you use? What experimental methodology? What
  equipment?
• You should already have plan participants lined
  up. Give names and specialties.

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You dont have to apply for all the money!
On the other hand, dont assume that you will get
one penny more than your budget thoroughly
justifies.
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Remember to edit the entire proposal.

• Be consistent in style and content.

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Please add these design elements

• Cover Page
• Title of proposal
• Your affiliation (not the office of your
  client)
• A graphic is very nice but not required.
• Title page
• Title of proposal
• Prepared for name of funding agency
• Prepared by your name (s)
• Your affiliation
• Date
• Table of Contents

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Balance and visualization throughout the proposal
Use more graphics!

• Graphics really help us visualize and therefore
  understand what you are describing and
  evaluating.
• If you provide pictures for at least one
  technology, provide pictures for all.

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Graphics

• Check labeling and titling requirements.
• See Graphics slides and Chapter 5 of my book.
• Be sure you have at least one original graphic.
• Cite the source of every borrowed graphic
  underneath the title.

Discuss each graphic in the text
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Integrate graphics with your discussion.

• Try to place graphic within your text, as part of
  a page.
• If graphic is just too large, put in a lettered
  appendix (Appendix B, e.g.)

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This proposal is based on research. Please take
care with the List of References.

• You should definitely have more than 6!
• Be sure to include at least two peer-reviewed
  sources.
• Be consistent with your format.

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Appendices

• Appendix A should be titled References.
• You may not need to have more appendices use
  your judgment.
• Include raw data, calculations, legislative
  bills, etc. that would interrupt flow of the
  report and are not critical for the readers
  understanding.
• Give every appendix a letter and title.
• Discuss and summarize every appendix in the body
  of the report.
• Paginate appendices separately A-1, A-2, etc.

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Language

• Your preliminary research is finished describe
  what you did in past tense.
• Describe your findings in present tense.
• Describe what your proposal presents in present
  tense.
• Describe the planned tasks in future tense

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Frame the quotations used in your report.

• Original
• But we have another, equally great
  responsibility to police ourselves, our students,
  and other scholars to maintain the trust and
  honesty upon which sharing work and knowledge
  depends.
• Use of quotation
• An important point that the author brings up in
  her article is that we have . . . a
  responsibility to police ourselves, our students,
  and other scholars to maintain the trust and
  honesty upon which sharing work and knowledge
  depends (Lanegran 2004).

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Bind the proposal.
Spiral, fastback, etc. NOT a clip or a plastic
sleeve.