You Have Been Asked by Your Student Organization to Write

You have been asked by your student organization to write a proposal to the university dining services to make a case to include more healthy food options in the cafeteria and around campus. You know that you want to support the student organization's goals, yet you are going to be writing this proposal to the decision makers in the dining services who have to balance students' needs and resources available. Use this scenario to describe why "analzying the situation" the most critical step of the technical communication development process.