Project Planning: Analyzing Your Writing Situation for Stakeholder Persuasion on Diabetes Care Interventions
Overview
This worksheet guides students through a structured project planning process for developing persuasive communications on diabetes management strategies. It prompts writers to analyze their writing situation across multiple dimensions including context, purpose, audience perspectives, and writer credibility when addressing healthcare stakeholders and policymakers.
What this coursework covers
- Project Identification: Establishing the diabetes intervention communication project
- Context: Situating the writing within healthcare policy and population health concerns
- Purpose: Examining organizational, authorial, and audience perspectives on document goals
- The Writer: Defining writer credibility and relationship to audience as healthcare practitioner
- Audience: Considering primary, secondary, and hidden audiences for the persuasive document
Preview
Project planning:
Analyzing Your Writing Situation
How to use this worksheet
Before you begin work on your next project, use this worksheet to help you brainstorm for and plan your project.
- Follow your instructor’s directions. You may be asked to fill out this worksheet and turn it in, OR, you may be asked to take notes on this worksheet and use them to develop a formal project planning memo.
- Note: Each set of brainstorming prompts is followed by a space for you to make planning notes. Not all questions may be relevant to every project, and in some cases you may not yet have answers to some questions.
Project identification
Writer’s name(s), title:
Project name:
Context
The context of writing the project is convincing stakeholder, which include government, healthcare leaders, and community representatives on effective and evidence-based care strategies.
- What is the occasion for this communication?
The main purpose of writing is to persuade stakeholders on the best intervention that can be used to manage and treat diabetes. The issue is important because a large percentage of the population is affected by diabetes, a lifestyle disease that can be controlled and managed. The government is incurring losses because the healthcare system is unnecessarily stressed by increased cases of diabetes.
Purpose
- From the perspective of the organization, what are the purposes of this document?
The main purpose of the document is to outline the strategies of care, treatment, and intervention that can be used to treat diabetic patients.