Your proposal must:

Be written in memo format, and the length must be 2 – 2 ½ pages, minimum of two full pages, single-spaced)

Qualifications and/or resources? (what do you bring to the table? What is your involvement?)

Success criteria? (How will you judge your ultimate recommendations? The video on project proposal writing delineates SMART success markers, ways to evaluate results: they should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. You may use these elements as well, for they also will serve as partial criteria with which your instructor will judge your final recommendations within the report)

Budget (for this proposal, you will only need to include a short-term budget for your investigative process: do you plan to print documents or conduct an interview off-site, for example? Then perhaps you should include those costs here. You will need to provide real cost structures for implementing your suggestions within the final recommendation report, however)

Timeline? (how long will it take you to gather up this research and write your report? Create a Gantt chart in either Word or Excel to capture your schedule and include it in the proposal. Again, you will reconstruct a timeline for implementation of your final suggestions within the recommendation report)

Ultimately, what is your goal? What is your call to action? (Largely, what you wish to gain here is approval to investigate the issue)