Founded on rhetorical principles guiding the field of technical/business/professional writing, Writing Proposals offers a comprehensive, activity-based approach to proposal and grant proposal development.

Writing Proposals provides readers with a full range of tools needed to develop sound, convincing proposals.  This comprehensive and up-to-date text, takes readers step-by-step through the development process, helping them invent their ideas, organize their materials, write in plain and persuasive styles, and create an effective visual design.

The inclusion of grantwriting expands the range of uses for this book. The second edition offers full coverage of this important subgenre of proposal writing. One of the case studies that runs through the book shows a team of people writing a grant to a private foundation. Readers will find the book very helpful for writing grants to fund research and good causes.