Writing a Proposal

Welcome back, crew! Today we will be talking about proposals. And no, I’m not talking about marriage proposals. I’m talking about professional, technical writing proposals.

What is a Proposal?

To start, you might be wondering, what exactly is a proposal?

A proposal is a document that offers to carry out research to provide a product or a service. As dietitians, we may write a proposal to a supplement company testing their products on our patients (who are athletes) and their effects on performance.

How to Write a Proposal

When writing proposals, we must apply concepts of planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading, as we learned in an earlier post of mine. In internal proposals, which is what we would write as dietitians, you must include the following sections:

Memo

In a professional proposal, authors use memos to introduce their letters. Memos are used for more brief documents.

Purpose

They then include the purpose of the proposal, which should be clear, short, and precise. State that we have performed a study to test the effectiveness of caffeinated supplements on a group of athletes. This gives the reader an easy understanding of what they’re about to encounter.

Summary

Unfortunately, proposals can be super long, including 10 or more sections. If this is the case, you will need to provide a summary of your proposal, which is found after the “purpose” statement. Include only the most important information in the summary because that may be exactly what the intended audience reads to save time.

Introduction

In the introduction, we should include the problem (negative side effects of caffeinated drinks), and why this supplement company should or shouldn’t include certain ingredients in their products. Basically, we want to voice why the supplement company’s products are or aren’t inadequate.

Proposed tasks

This section would explain what tasks we are planning on performing, which would be to test the athlete’s performance and see if the supplements are effective or not.

Experience

In this section, adding that you are a registered dietitian will make your study look credible. Since you will most likely have collaborated with a team of doctors, other dietitians, and medical professionals, including all strong credentials will allow your research to seem more respectable, professional, and accurate.

References

Give credit where it's due! All references should be presented in APA format. References as dietitians can range anywhere from other experiments documented in academic journals, databases, trusted organizations, and interviews.

That’s all I have for you guys today! I hope you have a great rest of your week!

Sincerely,

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