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Effective Proposal Creation: Analyzing Audience and Key Components

Understanding your audience's expertise is crucial for creating effective technical documents, as it ensures that the information is tailored to their level of knowledge. Revising and editing are essential stages in document preparation, enhancing clarity and professionalism. Proposals can be categorized as informal/formal, internal/external, and solicited/unsolicited. Components of a formal proposal include a title page, table of contents, executive summary, introduction, plan, benefits, approach, qualifications, and relevant visuals, which aid comprehension. Keep your resume aligned with proposal objectives for maximum impact.

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Effective Proposal Creation: Analyzing Audience and Key Components

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  1. ENGLISH 160 Ms. Shristy Bashyal Sep 6th, 2011 Day 5

  2. Quiz 2 (10 minutes) • Why is it important to analyze audience’s expertise while creating a technical document? • Why is revising and editing important stage in preparing a document, oral presentation, or visual? • 1

  3. Proposal • Informal/formal • Internal/external • Solicited/unsolicited

  4. Proposals often responds to “calls” • CFP Call for Proposal • RFP Request for Proposal • RFO Request for Offers If a CFP exists, the proposal is “solicited” and, most likely, “external”.

  5. CFP defines Document • CFP will often include a template. If the template includes table of contents, title page, appendix materials, etc., all sections must be addressed. • Proposal may be a form that is filled out (online).

  6. Preparing Proposals • Planning • Drafting • Budgeting • Evaluating • Revising • 5

  7. Components of Formal Proposal • Title Page • Table of contents • Executive summary • Introduction • Plan • Benefits • 6 • 6

  8. Components of Formal Proposal • Approach (methodology, schedule, budget) • Qualifications • Appendix/ reference • Minimum length 8 pages • 7

  9. Visuals • Tables, graphs, diagrams, charts, drawings, maps, and photographs • 8

  10. Visuals… • can be more specific than text. • can usually be understood more easily than text. • can be processed more quickly than text. • example Page 410 • 9

  11. Conventions • Textual Reference • Labeling (identification, title, caption) • Placement • 10

  12. Why is this pie chart (pie graph) poorly designed? • 11

  13. Pie chart Conventions • Largest to smallest • Starting at “noon”, moving clockwise • Color: darkest to lightest • 12

  14. Why is this pie chart poorly designed? • 13

  15. Resume • Résumés are attached as appendixes to Proposals. Update objective to something relevant to the proposal project For example: to conduct usability testing of instructional courseware.

  16. Resume Guidelines • Fills a single page • Objective matches purpose • Complete, concise, meaningful • Error free, updated • High school information deleted

  17. Homework • Post your resume (Bb-discussions-resume critique) before class on Thursday 8th September • Proposal draft due on September 13th (before class) • 16

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