1. The basic format for a proposal includes the following steps:
Introduction
Problem Analysis; major causes, Evidence and Effects of the probem.
Plan for solving the problem: Major steps, Support and Deliverables.
Benefits of the Plan: Costs-benefits analysis
Conclusion
2. Proposals are used in college, in the workplace and anywhere you want to pitch a proposal or new project idea including grant writing. 3. The steps for inventing your proposal’s content are defining the problem, analyzing the problem, researching, inquiring, and finding similar projects. 4. The three primary sources of information for proposal writing are online, print, and empirical sources. 5. The steps to planning to solve the problem are map out the plan, explore each major step, figure out costs and benefits, and finding similar projects. 6. Costs and benefits should be listed to prove to the readers that the benefits of their investment are worth the risks. 7. In choosing an appropriate style, the steps are creating an Authoritative Tone, use metaphors and similes, pay attention to Sentence Length, and minimize the jargon. 8. Three tips for designing the proposal are creating a look, create white space and use meaningful headings. 9. The four steps in revising and editing a proposal are looking for inconsistencies in content, getting rid of extra stuff, tweaking the design and proof reading. 10. Five major problems listed are students are “paid to play”, have out of control coaches, cases of academic fraud, an athletic over grades attitude and even a murder. He believes scholarships are to blame due to the fact that the students are viewed and picked mostly in part of the athletic performance and not academic performance. Having need based scholarships will benefit to provide a more educationally sound, a more commercially viable and a bigger