Proposal argument

People write proposal arguments to address problems and to change the way things are. But problems aren’t always obvious: what troubles some people might be no big deal to others. To get an idea of the range of issues people face at your school (some of which you may not even have thought of as problems), divide into groups and brainstorm about things that annoy you about your institution, including such things as complex or restrictive registration procedures, poor scheduling of lab courses, and convoluted paperwork for student aid applications. Ask each group to aim for at least a half dozen gripes. Then choose three problems and, as a group, discuss how you’d prepare a proposal to deal with them.