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Proposal and Presentation Reflection

Emeril Hart struggled initially to choose a topic for their feasibility proposal and presentation but eventually settled on advocating for greater wage transparency through legislation. For the proposal, Emeril took a data-driven approach and spent significant time researching wage statistics in New Mexico to support the argument. Emeril created a narrated PowerPoint for the presentation but encountered some technical difficulties with audio syncing. Feedback from classmates suggested including more visuals, which Emeril incorporated into the final version. Overall, Emeril felt the projects helped them advance in areas like project planning, content development, reviewing and editing, and organizational design.

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Proposal and Presentation Reflection

Emeril Hart struggled initially to choose a topic for their feasibility proposal and presentation but eventually settled on advocating for greater wage transparency through legislation. For the proposal, Emeril took a data-driven approach and spent significant time researching wage statistics in New Mexico to support the argument. Emeril created a narrated PowerPoint for the presentation but encountered some technical difficulties with audio syncing. Feedback from classmates suggested including more visuals, which Emeril incorporated into the final version. Overall, Emeril felt the projects helped them advance in areas like project planning, content development, reviewing and editing, and organizational design.

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Proposal and presentation Reflection

memorandum
Date: December 10th, 2021
To: Professor Cris Elder
From: Emeril Hart
Subject: My reflections on my feasibility proposal and presentation

Dear Professor Cris,

I initially struggled when it came to picking a topic. I couldn’t think of anything that stood out as
important to me personally, nor anything that I thought would make an interesting proposal. This
changed when I got the suggestion of wage transparency from a friend. They’ve been fighting for
greater transparency in their companies wage structure, and are very passionate about workplace
equity in general. Their initial suggestion was to write it as if I was proposing to my own
workplace, but I wanted to make the pitch broader in its scope. I eventually landed on trying to
make my pitch about systemic change via legislation, instead of just one company. I do think one
fault within both my written proposal and presentation was my inability to really pinpoint my
audience. I lack knowledge on exact legislative procedures, so a lot of the details of proposing
the bill came across as vague.

For the written proposal, I knew from the beginning that I wanted to go with a data driven
approach. This was reinforced when I posted my first draft and received the feedback from Joey
to add more data. This required a lot of research to ensure the points I wanted to make were
accurate. The need for research delayed my first draft, but I feel like it was a strength of my final
product. A large chunk of that time was spent looking into the wage gap statistic in NM. I
wanted to use this information as a major part of my argument, but in the end I felt it ended up
feeling a bit underused in my final draft. When it came to the visuals, I felt the best way to go
was to include some of the graphs and figures that I referenced in the body of the proposal. I felt
like this gave the reader both something interesting to look at, and the ability to look at some of
the same things I used to support my points. I do think the draft could have used more visuals
overall, but also didn’t want to add things that could potentially take away from the point of the
proposal.

For my presentation, I decided to go with a narrated powerpoint. It felt like an easy way to
convey the information, while also having a personal feel. However, this format presented
technical problems I predicted but still couldn’t fully prevent. This led to some audio desync
issues that couldn’t be fully buffed out of either draft. Also, I ended up using the same audio but
updating the video so I could avoid any extra technical issues that would’ve shown themselves
while re-recording. For the final draft, I added extra visuals to the slides, so that it was a bit more
visually interesting for the viewer. The adding of additional visuals was one of the bigger
suggestions I got from my classmates. I do think I could have structured many of the slides
differently so that those watching didn’t feel like they had to choose between listening to what I
had to say, and reading what was written on the slides.

For the SLO’s, There were four that I felt like I advanced the most with these projects: Project
Planning, Content Development, Reviewing and editing, and Organizational Design.

Project planning: I felt like this one was split evenly between both of the projects. I did a lot of
research for the proposal. I had to spend time ensuring the sources I was using were credible, and
that the information made sense for the points I was making. I also composed all of the
information and graphics into the final project. The presentation took a lot more planning in
terms of laying out exactly what points I wanted to pull from the proposal to speak about. It also
took time to compose, except in this case it was editing the audio and video.

Content Development: I had to pick and choose what information would and wouldn’t translate
well from the proposal to the presentation. There were many things I wanted to talk about, but
would have either made the presentation too long, or would have been hard to fit in contextually.
The different genres of the writings lended themselves to conveying information in very different
ways. For example, I felt like I was able to explain some of the wage gap statistics much easier
in the presentation than in the proposal. The genre just lent itself to explaining and walking the
viewer through a visual more.

Reviewing and editing: This SLO ended up being my greatest challenge when it came to the
presentation. I decided to record my audio and video separately, and edited them together
afterwards. This was a much tougher task than what I initially imagined it would be. I learned
that when creating something that is far out of my comfort zone, it can be better to make trial
runs to figure out exactly what the easiest and best course of action would be. I think the final
product is far better than it could have been in this area, but also didn’t exactly meet my
expectations for myself.

Organizational Design: For the proposal to have any legs to stand on, I had to do a lot of
research to support my points. There were many sources that I found and ended up not using due
to being unable to fully vet where their information came from. Due to this, I had to narrow my
focus and scope for the proposal. My initial searches were bringing up a broader range of topics
than what would be useful to my final piece. I was lucky to stumble upon some great sources,
such as the information from the NM Department of Workforce Solutions. It was presented
incredibly well, and gave me a great spring board of facts to support a large chunk of the
proposal.

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