What is the main purpose of a proposal?

• Make recommendations

• Make a complaint

• Point out the problems

• Describe the situation

How many stages do you have in your Assignment 2 (written proposal)?

• 1

  (1 draft only)

• 2

  (first & final draft)

• 3

  (first, second, & final draft)

• 4

  (first, second, third, & final draft)

Which of the following is NOT the situations given to you in this Assignment 2?

• SmarTone; getting young people to subscribe for a more expensive plan

• SF express; losing delivery drivers

• Broadway Cinema;

  getting more young people to visit the cinema

• Pure Yoga; getting more clients to join yoga classes

• California Fitness;

  risk of liquidation

Which of the following should be inside your written proposal?

• Proposals

  (suggestions)

• Background (problem & reasons)

• Introduction (purpose of writing)

• Full description of the situation

What do we need to make our proposals/suggestions appear to be more persuasive?

• potential problems and contingency

• justifications of the suggestions

• benefits of the suggestions

• disadvantage of the proposals

Which of the following are examples descriptive proposal?

• We should offer more functional classes to our clients.

• We should offer therapeutic classes to our clients because they have all a stressful lifestyle.

• We should offer 50% off to new subscribers.

• We should offer 50% off to new subscribers who will then become long-term and loyal customers.

Which of the following are polite requests to your supervisor or manager?

• Could you let me know your decision and your comments?

• Let me know your comments and decision today.

• Would it be possible to change our cleaning company?

• Would you mind switching the supplier?

What should we do in our written proposal?

• Descriptive writing.

  (describe problems & list suggestions only)

• Critical writing.

  (analyse the reasons of the problems & give suggestions with benefits)

What should we do when making a BIG request?

• Direct question

  (E.g. How can we bear this much loss?)

• Direct request

  (E.g. Change the supplier, please)

• Indirect question

  (E.g. Would it be feasible to change our supplier?)

Situation 1.

Which of the following could be the reasons for high turnover rate of delivery drivers/transporters?

• High demand of delivery drivers in the market

• More high paid positions from competitors

• Exhausting job nature

• Poor work condition