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- Title
Answering the Call: Toward a History of Proposals.
- Authors
Meloncon, Lisa
- Abstract
While scholars have begun to write a history of reports and instructions, little scholarship exists on the history of proposals. To fill this gap, I analyze proposals written by Dorothy Wordsworth and Anne Macvicar Grant, ca. 1800. My analysis uses contemporary rhetorical theory to determine how they structured their writing and incorporated rhetorical appeals to achieve their goals. My findings show that their texts should be placed on a continuum of the history and development of the proposal genre. Further findings suggest that their use of contemporary rhetorical theories authorized Wordsworth's and Grant's discourse to successfully affect change.
- Subjects
TECHNICAL writing; COMMUNICATION of technical information; INFORMATION services; TECHNOLOGY; WORDSWORTH, Dorothy, 1771-1855; GRANT, Anne MacVicar; RHETORICAL theory; CREATIVE ability; THEORY of knowledge; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0047-2816
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2190/TW.40.1.c