research proposal

            The topic I will be researching is how contractors and subcontractors communicate via daily communication, bid proposals, and bid scopes to achieve an equal understanding to complete a job. The first step to completing a research paper is doing the research, so that’s where I will start. I will start by finding out what kind of communication is done on a daily basis and the exact purpose of bid scopes and proposals. I plan to either do this by finding articles online or just asking my teachers or my peer mentor. This will introduce what I am researching to my audience and will give them an insight and background knowledge on the topic so they may understand the technicalities I will later describe in the paper. This information will most likely be located in the beginning of each of the body paragraphs about bid scopes and proposals.

            After giving the background knowledge, I will move on to the actual facts on how these scopes and proposals are actually written to best communicate the in the first part of the body paragraphs. I plan on finding this information either through websites or scholarly essays, and sample bid scopes and proposals. I have already acquired specific examples from the Biorenewables Building project Weitz is doing here on campus, south of the Design Building. My plan is to analyze these papers and explain the style, delivery, and context of the writing. I have a gut feeling I will get most of my research information from these samples.

            Following talking about the style, delivery, and context of these pieces of writing, I will continue on to dissect the format and focus of the two samples. A lot of this information will be extracted from my samples, but I will also compare them to other examples that can be found online. I will search many different templates, and try to understand the differences in them and the reasons behind them. After making my conclusions, I will ask my teachers and peer mentor if I have made the correct inferences on the different formats of the bid scopes and proposals. I will also search scholarly essays finding what the most important aspects of the bid scopes and proposals to get the best response from the other party.

                        My final body paragraph will contain the daily communication that takes place after the bidding process. This mostly consists of emails and phone calls, but other time includes face to face interaction. I will start by giving reasons and examples why a contractor and subcontractor might contact one another during the span of a job, and continue on to explain how they would go about it. More often than not, the topic of daily discussion is problems with the schedule or quality of work.

After finishing my body paragraphs, I will continue on to my conclusion paragraph. This will contain no new information, but will restate the topics from the body, and tie all of it together. It should help the reader to understand the big picture of my research.