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Title: Project Charter


1
Project Charter
  • Producing Collaborative Documents

2
Project Charter
  • This PowerPoint covers the following
  • Requirements of Project Charter
  • Writing as a Group
  • Professional Standards
  • Concise Writing

3
Project Charter
  • This projects asks students to work in groups in
    preparing one proposal for a service learning
    project
  • Students must draw from each others design
    notebooks in forming one idea and proposal

4
Group Brainstorming
  • Treat brainstorming for the project charter as a
    negotiation
  • Look for an overlap between observations and
    ideas
  • Draw on the specific expertise of each member
  • Make sure everyones voice is heard
  • If the group decides to do something else, get
    over it
  • Choose what is best for the client

5
Group Writing Strategies
  • Write everything together
  • This ensures consistency
  • This can be difficult with large groups
  • Divide-up into sections
  • This ensures that everyone gets a voice and is
    easier with big groups
  • Can produce uneven documents

6
Group Writing Guidelines
  • Dont make one person write the entire thing
  • Devise a game plan before writing the charter
  • Create an outline for the document
  • Develop standards that every member must meet in
    composing

7
Group Writing Standards
  • Create standards that address
  • Contractions
  • First and second person
  • Terminology
  • Length
  • Paragraph style
  • Citation style
  • Transitions
  • Headings and subheadings
  • Graphics and images
  • Fonts

8
Group Revision
  • Everyone should participate
  • Check every standard to ensure compliance
  • Consider the relative weight of each section
  • Think about transitions between each section
  • Read the entire document out loud to check for
    shifts in voice and tone

9
Professional Standards
  • Remember that this project is a professional
    relationship with a client more than it is a
    class project
  • Uphold professional standards throughout all
    interactions with clients, including writing the
    project charter

10
Professional Standards
  • Professional Standards include
  • Voice
  • Audience Consideration
  • Document Appearance
  • Timeliness
  • Clarity and Conciseness
  • Specificity
  • Professional Appearance and Interaction

11
Professional Ethos
  • Speak with a professional voice that uses the
    terminology and style of the client
  • Address and value the concerns and needs of the
    client
  • Provide relevant and reliable evidence to support
    your conclusions
  • Make sure your document design meets the
    standards of the field you are writing for

12
Concise Writing
  • The goal of concise writing is to use the most
    effective words.
  • Concise writing does not always have the fewest
    words, but it always uses the strongest ones.
  • Writers often fill sentences with weak or
    unnecessary words that can be deleted or
    replaced.
  • Words and phrases should be deliberately chosen
    for the work they are doing.

13
Concise Writing
  • Replace several vague words with more powerful
    and specific words
  • Wordy Our website has made available many of the
    things you can use for making a decision on the
    best dentist. (20 words)
  • Concise Our website presents criteria for
    determining the best dentist. (9 words)

14
Concise Writing
  • Interrogate every word in a sentence
  • Wordy The teacher demonstrated some of the
    various ways and methods for cutting words from
    my essay that I had written for class. (22 words)
  • Concise The teacher demonstrated methods for
    cutting words from my essay. (10 words)

15
Concise Writing
  • Combine Sentences
  • Wordy Ludwig's castles are an astounding
    marriage of beauty and madness. By his death, he
    had commissioned three castles. (18 words)
  • Concise Ludwig's three castles are an astounding
    marriage of beauty and madness. (11 words)

16
Exercise
  • Revise the following bit of text.
  • The first group to successfully revise it down
    to 125 clear and concise words wins.

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