FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL: Magnus Opus and Exigence > Learning to Appreciate DOTS: A Terp's Guide to Efficiently Using Campus Shuttles
A, I like that you see a problem that a document can help with.
For the guide portion, will you use directions strategies? Do you work there? Can you take pictures? And, a personal plea: help people learn now to use the bicycle lift/carrier, too.
Part of your persuasion paper might be written as an opinion piece for the Diamondback. Another audience, might be SGA.
You can create a short survey to use in class. Ask me about this.
Finally, people/students might see DOTs/Shuttle as PART of a strategy, along with Lyft/Uber and Metrobus/Metro.
Can you make the case for the lower carbon strategy that DOTs embodies? Look at the Sustainability Office pages on this. We have won many nation-wide awards on our sustainability profiles and leadership.
You can reference a paper I co-authored: Horvath, Shea, Stewart.
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Marybeth Shea
Audience: Students and faculty new to the University of Maryland who may need transportation on and off campus; people who seem to strongly dislike DOTS.
Context: Currently, there seems to be a feud between students and the UMD Department of Transportation. Much of this stems from campus parking enforcement, however, there is a lack of understanding and appreciation for the transportation that DOTS provides to students and staff. The unfamiliarity with the shuttle system can be intimidating, however, it prevents campus-goers from taking advantage of and appreciating the department's services.
Purpose: to create more appreciative attitudes towards DOTS by informing how to properly and effectively use the Shuttle-UM system.
Document Type: a combination between a step-by-step how-to guide and an informative (somewhat persuasive) paper (similar to the coffee up paper)
Citation style: natural language to provide ethos, referral links (DOTS web pages with helpful links)