Problem/Solution
Description
Please discuss AT LEAST THREE (3) potential ideas for your problem solution paper here, The project is to design a document that highlights a problem that is generally of a state or region scale (NOT solving global warming or human poverty). Sometime the problem you wish to solve has a universally applicable technology solution. (bathroom scales to weigh yourself are always in the way–one student designed a special tile to be put in all new construction houses, which had a wall readout of weight!!) . You don’t need to work out all the engineering or funding details, but the farther you can go in specifying how your “solution” might be implemented, the better a proposal you will have done. At this point I only want you to begin thinking about some problem that is vexing to you and that you might have already thought of an easy solution (Like when you say to yourself “if I were running things, I’d do it this way”) . The problem can be transportation, the environment, education, energy, jobs, the economy, family life, immigration, health, health care, or any other topic of interest to you. It can be in the form of any of the following, though a task force recommendation or commission report is the most common one that students use. You are “pretending” to be someone with considerable authority on your subject, and may have been empowered by a government entity to come up with recommendations. Here are some common types of written documents meant to persuade: resolution (Links to an external site.), legal motion, (Links to an external site.) motion (Links to an external site.) to a board of directors or institution, Study, (Links to an external site.) such as a feasibility study report petition, (Links to an external site.) task force recommendation (Links to an external site.), Commission report (Links to an external site.) or letter of communication to a lawmaker from a band of concerned citizens. (Links to an external site.)(you will need to do two or three of these if they are less than a page long, and copies of letters must be sent to other congresspersons who have responsibility for the issue you are concerned about.
