By: KC Cowan

KC Cowan — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 23:36:20 +0000

In high school, I had to write a proposal asking my teachers to approve a research project that I would study for two years. At that time, the proposal did not have strict expectations for content and structure, allowing me the freedom to say what I felt was necessary to say. Personally, I like the idea of our Short Proposal assignment because I believe that we will learn a lot of professional skills during the creation and revision stages. Seeing as how I will most likely be working in Research and Development for the first few years following graduation, I think this project will provide me with a lot of information that I can use while writing future proposals.

By: Paul Stiles

Paul Stiles — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:25:57 +0000

Writing up a proposal truly is a daunting process. That being said, I feel that the more proposals you are exposed to and the more proposals you write the easier the process becomes. I feel that the hardest kind of proposal is any type that is unsolicited. This kind of proposal seems reminiscent of “cold calls”, which is when a phone solicitor calls and asks if you want to buy kitchen knives. My father who recently retired from sales says that it take 8-12 cold calls until you get 1 success. If you transfer that over to unsolicited proposals,that is a pretty low success rate.

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By: KC Cowan

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