Proposal Purposes
I beleive that the reason that we were asked to write a proposal is for the simple fact that the instructor wants to see that we are going in the right direction. It is somewhat of a pre-rough draft. This gives her the opportunity to direct us in the right direction in what is probably our biggest assignment of the class. I beleive that it also shows that we ubnderstand our topics well enough to fill up the required length of theh paper. It shows that we are familiar with the issue and that we have an idea of how we want to present the topic. I think that learning how to write a proposal gives us the opportunity to learn the steps of writing before we enter some more in depth writing courses. Perhaps some of us are considering grad school and there we will be asked to submit proposals in almost everything that we do. It can also be seen as an opportunity to understand just what the instructor expects from our final research paper. The proposal also lays out ideas for us that we can build upon in our research paper. It may help us to better understand where we want to go with our papers. In these same ways, writing a proposal in other classes even if they are not assigned can be very helpful. It gives us a preliminary work to put all of our overall thoghts together. I could see myself writing in this genre in a future career. Let’s for example, say that we are working for a business in the Human Resource Department and we have to give a presentation on safety. We would want to find sources that backed our opinion on why safety is so important. Before we just go in and give a presentation, we will want to give a short outline of what we are trying to accomplish and how we will go about meeting our goals. The best way to do this is to write a proposal. I can see this kind of writing being encountered in a lot of future career choices.