Rehabilitation Plan Proposal

Purpose

Before diving into a big project, it is important to have an end goal in mind. This assignment will help you select a topic for the Rehabilitation Plan and set an end goal for your project.

Task

1. Locate an individual or an organization in your community that has a blemished reputation. They can be from your town, region, or state. If you choose a political figure, the person must hold a local position--no state or national politicians. Use the Library Assignment Guide to help you locate the information. 
2. Answer the following questions in a numbered list:
   1. Briefly describe the person or organization. Include a source for this information such as an About Us page or LinkedIn profile.
   2. Describe the reputation blemish. Include a quotation from the source of the blemish information.
   3. What issues (aka research topics) are related to this blemish? List at least 3 and briefly describe each one.
   4. Develop a research question for the issue that you wish to write about.

Specifications

This proposal will:

• Contain a number list of answers
• Identify a person or organization with a blemished reputation
• Describe the blemish
• Describe three issues related to the blemish
• Provide a research question for one of the issues
• Use a formal tone and avoid 2nd person POV (you, your, commanding the reader by starting a sentence with a verb)
• Be proofread and free from most grammatical and spelling errors.
• Utilize MLA style for document format, in-text citations, and the Works Cited list. 

Rehabilitation Plan

Purpose

Research papers are perhaps the most common writing assignment in college. You will write many of them before you graduate. This assignment, along with the other assignments in this cycle, will give you a chance to develop a personalized process for writing good research papers that should increase your success with research-based writing assignments in other classes throughout your college career. 

However, this assignment is more than a research paper because, outside the classroom, research is done for a specific purpose. Journalists research the background of issues and people before conducting interviews; businesses research markets and competitors before pouring money and resources into a new venture; and researchers in all scientific and medical fields must learn what is already known about a problem and what has already been tried before they begin experiments of their own. In each example, the research is an early step in a larger project. 

The last project of your "internship" for Prestige Public Relations will involve a research paper and the creation of two multimedia items. You are going to choose an organization or individual in your community who has a blemish on their reputation to be your fictitious client. You will research an issue related to that blemish, and then use that research to develop a small public relations campaign to rehabilitate the client's reputation.

Tasks

Research (Must be done individually)

1. Review the Annotated Research Paper Example, Defending a Despot: Research Paper Example. These will help you understand the research paper component of the assignment.
2. Complete your essay with the following parameters:
   1. minimum of 5 pages long plus a Works Cited list
   2. written in a formal tone (3rd person point-of-view only)
   3. contains an argumentative thesis statement (Your essay needs to prove a point, not be a random list of facts)
   4. synthesizes the information from a variety of sources into a new whole that supports the conclusion/thesis being presented
   5. includes source material from more than one source in each body paragraph to demonstrate corroboration between sources on each subtopic
   6. excludes some information on the topic because it's not relevant to the argument being made
   7. includes information from at least 6 reliable, preferably scholarly, sources (minimum of 4 sources from GALILEO databases, including at least one book or ebook)
   8. does not include information from unreliable and/or potentially biased sources including most .com websites and materials written for children
   9. clearly organized into well developed paragraphs
   10. utilizes MLA-style for document formatting, in-text citations, and the Works Cited list
3. AI chatbots may be used for proofreading, organization of ideas, and to locate sources, but this resource must be cited like all others
4. Proofread your essay carefully.
5. Submit your essay to this assignment folder. It will automatically be submitted to Turnitin.com.

Analysis and Plan (May be done with a partner)

1. In a separate document, answer the following questions in 2-3 paragraphs (1/2 page minimum):
   1. What did you learn from your research that can combat the slight on your client's reputation? 
   2. What message will your rehabilitation campaign communicate about your client?
   3. How will this message repair the client's reputation? Distract from the other issue? Prove the client innocent in the original matter? 
2. Revise your answers, so that your Analysis and Plan:
   1. utilizes MLA-style for document formatting, in-text citations, and the Works Cited list
   2. is written in a formal tone (1st and 3rd person point-of-view, but not 2nd-no you/your)
3. Proofread.
4. Submit your Analysis and Plan to this assignment folder.*

Multimedia Samples (May be done with a partner)

1. Create 2 multimedia samples from the list of options provided.
2. Submit them to the assignment folder.*

*If you work with a partner on the last two components of this assignment, both partners should submit copies to their assignment folders. Both names should be noted at the top of the Analysis and Plan. 

Specifications

The Research should:

• draw a conclusion about the topic/present an argument (thesis)
• synthesize the information from a variety of sources into a new whole that supports the conclusion/thesis being presented
• include source material from more than one source in each body paragraph to demonstrate corroboration between sources on each subtopic
• exclude some information on the topic because it's not relevant to the argument being made
• include information from at least 6 reliable, preferably scholarly, sources (minimum of 4 sources from GALILEO, including at least one book/ebook)
• not include information from unreliable and/or potentially biased sources including most .com websites and materials written for children
• be clearly organized
• be written in a formal tone, typically using 3rd person point-of-view and excluding 1st and 2nd points of view (I, we, us, our, you, your)
• be a minimum of 5 pages long
• provide appropriate documentation, including in-text citations in MLA format (includes any AI chatbot use)
• be submitted to the assignment folder

The Analysis and Plan should:

• be at least a 1/2 page in length
• avoid the use of 2nd person POV (you, your, commanding the reader, etc.)
• answer the questions from the prompt

Multimedia Items should:

• include two items from the approved list 
• follow specifications for the specific items chosen as these are different for each type of multimedia