This week’s reading was mostly focused on getting us ready to write our proposals. During class, our group focused on looking at the types and contexts of proposals in the reading from PWOnline. There are basically two different types of proposals, solicited and unsolicited. Solicited mainly focuses on the solution to a certain problem the company or client has. There is no need to talk about the problem at hand, since it is already a known fact, which is why it is important to then persuade the reader that you have the best solution to solve that problem. It is important to focus on the solution you plan to develop and implement to solve the company’s addressed problem. In an unsolicited proposal, the problem has yet to be discovered. It is important to provide key information that displays there is a problem that needs to be solved. This type of proposal must convince the company that you have the best knowledge of their problem or need, and must show the significance of that problem. The reading also talks about formal vs. informal proposals. Formal proposals are usually very authentic and can consist of up to thousands of pages. These types of proposals are usually used in governmental agencies, but can also be used by businesses whose proposals are usually much shorter. In informal proposal would be something like an e-mail where there is little talk and both sender and receiver know what the subject surrounding the e-mail is about. For the proposal we will be creating, I expect it to fall between formal and informal. We won’t be using shorthand language or content that spans thousands of pages, but we will have a formal tone with a substantial amount of information to get our point across. The reading in PWOnline this week has been very helpful, and will benefit our group very much.