General comments on proposal

• Motivation: why is it ‘needed’ & how it can be used (even beyond the project)

• Include summary of the approach & brief intro before the related work

• List the ‘challenges’ (why is this hard & cannot be performed using existing work)

• List potential contributions• Justify every step/choice you make (why?)

• Related work: - positioning of the work is V IMP– What is to be borrowed (potentially)– What’s new & in what way is it new (qualitatively

compared to other works)– Include proper citations and references throughout

(check conference and journal papers for format)• Body: provide a framework; break down the

project into components• What makes you in a position to address the

challenges?– Leverage existing resources to get ‘an edge’ over

existing work (e.g., iTrust open source code, traces, data-driven analysis and insight, specific knowledge about social behavior, on campus life, etc.)