Workplan for Advocacy Project:
In the modern college environment aside from some physical textbooks that students need to purchase, most course content is distributed to students via Canvas. These PDF’s can either appear as a nonselectiable picture or as a copyable paragraph of text that can be copied. When writing essays, in general, students would agree that the latter kind of PDF is superior. It allows for easier highlighting of text, an easier insertion of notes, defining of words, and it results in a superior classroom experience for the students.

For my project, I will attempt to get the use of automatic text recognition for PDF’s used/mandated as a classroom teaching aids or supplemental texts.

End of week 1: 4-9-18
Have all basic research done and perhaps call/email a few officials.
End of week 2: 4-16-18
setup/conduct interviews regarding my idea and pitch it to important people.
End of week 3: 4-23-18
Finalize the project, wrapt up any loose ends. Write papers/make a Powerpoint presentation.

Most likely to go wrong:
The worse thing that could go wrong for me would be to fail to get support from the faculty at the College of Liberal Arts. Without support from the faculty, I have no project.

Limit the effectiveness of your project:
This project will at maximum benefit only affect a few hundred students. In each course (at least for RCL) the readings change by about 20% each year. This means without upkeep within a few years the situation will be back where it started.

Contingency Plan:
I will raise awareness for the use of automatic text recognition for PDF’s used as classroom teaching aids or supplemental texts.

End of week 1: 4-9-18
Have all basic research done and perhaps call/email a few officials.
End of week 2: 4-16-18
setup/conduct interviews regarding my idea and pitch it to important people.
End of week 3: 4-23-18
Finalize the project, wrapt up any loose ends