Saturday, March 31, 2007
Billy and Paul's Chapter 19
While identifying types of proposal information such as situation, planning, benefits, approach, evaluation, and qualifications, this information should be included. Solicited proposals, and unsolicited, are the two main proposals specified in this chapter. Unsolicited proposals are usually internal documents and responses to an individual in an organization. Solicited proposals are simply a written response to an RFP. When an organization turns to a researcher, the RFP will identify the missing specifications needed in order for it to be accepted. RFP’S are usually accounted by several types of organizations. These types of organizations include: research and not profit foundations, educational institutions, government agencies, and private businesses. When requesting a proposal you need to remember to put the information in order starting with the most important. Using persuasion for your proposals audience is the most imperative concept to grasp. This will help you convince your audience to accept your proposal. During your proposal you need to have concerns of the audience, credibility of the speaker, and logic of the message. These are critical concerns needed to persuade your audience of your proposal. While writing the RFP you must identify the problem, provide background information, define the desired outcome, specify the service you need, and require detailed information. Planning your proposal will make the proposal go smoother and easier. Once you have the project established you need to plan a detailed review of what’s expected. To do this you must identify problems, organize an outline, analyze competition, and create a manageable budget. Budgeting are important features for a proposal. A budget identifies expenses for equipment, travel, and indirect cost. Finally, you need to evaluate, revise, and submit your proposal. In conclusion, this chapter outlines how to prepare, organize, and write an accurate proposal.
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I agree with this summmary and how it explained about using persuasion. That is very important when writing a proposal for the future. When you use persuasion, it helps the audience see your side of what you are trying to tell them, want to go for what you are selling or persuading them to do. It helps the audience to be convinced of what you are telling them. You have to be concerned about the audience as well as the summary said. If make your proposal boring they wont want to listen and wont be convinced. Also, planning your proposal will make the proposal go smoother and easier as I know from experience. If you arent prepared or practice, then it might not go as planned.
This group did a nice job of summarizing the important aspects of this chapter. They outlined the importance of making sure a persuasive document is well organized so that the audience is aware of the issues and can become persuaded. Chances are, if your audience does not understand exactly what it is you are wanting them to think or chose, they might decided to go another way. Another key issue brought up in the chapter is that of cognitive dissonance. Explaining exactly why your proposal is the best solution or idea is likely to minimize that and get you the results you want from your audience.
In most committee or small group type settings within businesses and organizations some of the decision making is done through the use of proposals. The group this week did a good job summarizing the differences between solicited and unsolicited proposals where as in the book it wasn’t as clear. The summary also did a good job of explaining the importance of using persuasion in proposals. This is significant because if your audience isn’t persuaded they might be more likely to chose a competing proposal that used persuasion to help show the distinct advantages of their proposal and all of your work would have been wasted.
Proposals are a very important thing in any type of work in any type of business. I would agree that a proposal needs to be a persuasive document. It needs to be persuasive to make sure that you can sell your idea like you would try to sell a product. I liked the fact that it says to keep the document in an order of importance starting with the main important parts. To get your audience involved right away in what they want to know. In one of my engineering classes we are discussing proposals and we learned that you need to be precise not leaving information out. You need to include the entire budget what you plan to do what you do not plan to do and how you will accomplish your goals.
Preparing proposals is a very important part of technical communication, and the business world in general. Preparing an estimate proposal is a bid that is sent to a possible client for a job that a company wants to be hired for. When preparing an estimate proposal there are many factors to consider: whether it is about what type of carpet, doors, paint, and any other type of item that would cost money. Getting an estimate that is less expensive than every other company is important. You also have to consider that you have to have a good record. That means that your other jobs have to look good, and have certain aspects that the possible client can get sucked in by.
I think persuasion has a large impact in how your document will be received. It will also sway the opinion of the person after they have read the document. If the document is well written persuasive wise then your presentation may be received better from the audience then if it was just the facts with no outside persuasion. Your proposal should have facts that make yours stand out amongst several others. It must also be easy to gain information from, as this will persuade the audience further as they need the information fast. The more you show that you have the best plan, the better your odds of winning the audience.
During my speech class we had to write a persuasive speech. To me this speech was very educational. My instructor taught us that if you identify a void in your audiences' life that can be filled by what you are persuading you will have a greater probability in persuading the audience. And when you use logically reasons for what you are proposing you are also more likely to be successful in persuading. What I found was extremely important was that you have credible resources in you speech or proposal, this will convince the audience about facts and creditable experiences that they can trust and believe.
Proposals are used in businesses very frequently. They are used to analyze problems, determine benefits and costs, and gain information. A lot of research must be done to organize a good proposal. In my manufacturing engineering class we have dealt a lot with proposals. The proposals that we have worked on are made to analyze research or a design process. All of the same criteria that are described in Burnett are applied to these proposals. Information should be organized by the how important the information is. In the case of research you would need it in chronological order. In the proposal we had to identify problems, alternative solutions, and form a budget.
This chapter did a great job of explaining how to address the appropriate audience when writing a proposal. It stressed how important it was to keep everything organized, and to do so in the appropriate manner. Showing all of the important information first in order to stress how important the proposal is, and also giving information that supports all of your arguments. It also talks about analyzing the information and making sure that you included useful points, and not just giving information to fill space. If you follow the guidelines that are given in this chapter you will be able to write very useful proposals when you need to.
Preparing a proposal is a vital part of communication. It is ultimately your ideas presented to someone to be accepted or rejected. Using persuasion is an important part of this process. You need to appeal to your audiences' emotions in order to win them over. This does not mean you must manipulate them in order to gain their approval. Audience members who develop positive attitudes toward the subject of the proposal will be more likely to accept that proposal.
This chapter was well organized and really went over everything this chapter covered. I really agree with the fact that proposals are much more effective when in a persuasive way. By using a persuasive tone you are trying to convince your audience of your proposal. Another very important topic in this chapter would be the organization of a proposal. Organization is very important in any document, paper, e-mail, speech and proposal. If your proposal wasn’t organized it would be hard to follow what was being said or what the overall concept of the proposal was.
Persuasion is key in any proposal. The audience needs to be persuaded toward the main idea in order for a proposal to be successful. Like any other document or presentation, as discussed in previous chapters, a proposal should also relate to the audience. The summary also mentions planning as an important part of any proposal. With the Windfarm project for example, each group organized and prepared for collectively finishing the proposal, as well as noting problems that could occur. The chapter provides a helpful outline and guidlines for composing a successful proposal.
There are many types of proposals and depending on the situation or the audience will depend on the type of proposal to use. Similar to other documents you must remember to stay consistent and put the information inorder. When writing or considering a proposal one must concentrate on persuasion. This is a key element to include inorder to convince the audience of what you want. I agree with the text, you must identify the problem and provide backgorund information, to educate the audience. Next, specify the service needed inforder to accomplish the desired outcome. Before presenting a proposal, make a clear plan and go over all the information with an outside source first.
In order for a proposal to be effective it is important to use the information from this chapter. You must be organized so that the information you are trying to get out is professional and convincing. It is also important to be persuasive. You must try to appeal to your audience whom ever they may be. If you take time to plan your proposal and make sure that you have covered all the detail it will be more convincing to your audience. They will find you more crediable and professional if you are organized.
I agree with this chapter that in order to write an effective proposal you have to identify the type of proposal used to attempt to convince an audience. Another thing, when compelling your audience of a proposed plan or set of objectives respond to a problem that is workable, manageable, logically organized, and cost efficient. The examples and directions on how to write a good proposal are best illustrated in chapter 19 and in the future it would be very helpful for me to refer to the book when I need to start organizing a proposal. Creating a proposal is good way to identify several purposes such as solving a problem, investigate a subject, and selling a product or service. A proposal is a great form of persuasive writing in a more organized format. Using Proposals in any profession could great increase the chances of your success in pursuing your career goals.
didn't we already talk about persuasion in another chapter? well anyways persuading the reader is the many goal when ever your trying to write a paper and prove your point to undecided mind or even make someone change there mind about a certain topic though with some topics its alot harder to do that others. like abortion the number one topic anyone thingks about when they think of persuading.. the best way to persuade someone is just using evidence to back up all of your statements.
Chapter nineteen was summarize very well everything covered was organized nicely and orderly. We have to learn to identify types of proposal information such as situations, planning, benefits, approach evaluation and qualifications, this information should also be included: solicited and unsolicited are two main specific proposals. Solicited proposal is written in response to an RFP. Proposals have one of several purposes to solve a problem, investigate a subject, or sell a product. They typically expect some or all of the following information to be included situation, plan, benefits, approach, evaluation, and qualifications.
This chapter about preparing a proposal has explained how to make a proposal effective. In my view making an effective proposal will create a lot difference in how audience would have reacted on it when it was just a plain proposal and how it is reacted after it has been worked to make it effective. One should identify the appropriate ways of persuading audience and also should identify the certain group of audience so that the proposal can be modified to fit that group. Understanding the necessary parts of the proposal, preparing, organizing are some other important things that will help a proposal be effective.
This chapter was very well summarized by Billy and Paul. They talked about identifying types of proposals which is very important so people know what they are reading.When writing a proposal it is also improtant to identify the way you are going to persuade someone to see the sitaution your way. They also talked about the three steps to creating a proposal, prepare, organize, and actually write it. I probably won't have the opportunity to write or read a proposal in my life untill I graduate from college and get a job.
I think this summary is very well written. It covers the chapter well and highlights all of the main points. This chapter contains a lot of good information about proposals which are very important in the workplace especially when you are trying to get something for the company or from the company. We’ve had a lot of experience in class with this with the wind farm proposal and I think we all learned a lot from it.
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