As this week concludes, my group and I have been working together produce a project proposal for a new adaptation of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. My group and I were given the task to create a presentation as well as a proposal letter. During this process, we noticed that the use of rhetoric in a proposal has several differences when compared to the use of rhetoric within a regular academic paper. Today in this blog, I am going to clearly state and define the differences between a proposal and an academic paper.
Rhetoric in a Proposal
The central objective of a proposal is to persuade an audience of the value or significance of what you are doing. Usually, proposals are used in government, businesses, and corporations. Proposals typically outline a problem, detail solutions to the problem, and define the costs for solving the problem. Proposals provide information about the qualifications of the person or people suggesting the solution. When funds are sought to conduct the promised work, a detailed budget is provided. More formal proposals contain evaluation information, a plan to evaluate the success of the proposal once it’s implemented. Proposals are arguments that seek particular outcomes from the readers of the proposals. Proposals can offer to trade services for money or goods, proposals can seek funding to conduct research, and proposals might present a call for action.
Similarities and Differences Within a Proposal
Similar to an academic paper, a proposal requires the implementation of logical, emotional, and ethical appeals. Within a proposal however, the use of these appeals are used differently as the basis of presenting these ideas to an audience are for persuading the audience to choose your idea over other’s ideas. The most important appeals within proposals has to be logical and ethical appeals since statistics wealth or growth can be more effective to raise your argument rather than emotional appeals. Visuals and imagery is also very important within a proposal. Another difference between a academic paper and proposal is that within a proposal yo must introduce the problem and persuade the audience on why your solution is the best solution. Proposals are more lenient and imaginative rather than papers, because when it comes to academic papers, their is usually a prompt of some sort where the writer has to be precise and correct to the prompt. While in proposals, an assignment can be conduct with different ideas and still be correct within the guidelines pf the assignment. However, it all depends on if the boss chooses your idea or not.
Rhetoric this Week
As 2020 continues, the COVID-19 virus has created an environment that has everyone around the world terrified. News stations such as FOX and CNN headline the virus everyday for a 24/7 update. Inconsistencies within the government continue to effect society. The number of cases and deaths are growing at a frightening rate and the government is unable to give us many straight answers to straight questions when it comes to testing. Due to rhetoric from the media and news, it is unclear if we will ever get over this pandemic nor if we are close to the end.
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