Chapter 17

The chapter on proposals I found to be most useful in its examples of what a proper proposal should be and the types of such. The thing I found most interesting was the brief discussion on the difference between a formal and informal proposal. Formal proposals are often very specific, long winded, technical document prepared for a specific target audience. I have some experience writing proposals and they usually follow military type standards that are extremely detailed. What I found that was interesting was that informal proposals are relegated to memos. Memos get a point across in a brief form, but the fact that memos are all encompassing shows how important they are.