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Re: Proposal Writing: Second Person vs. Third Person
Subject:Re: Proposal Writing: Second Person vs. Third Person From:Crescent Enterprise <cres -at- cres -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:15:19 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chalmers, Eric wrote:
> I'm wondering if the other proposal writers out there have any thoughts
> about writing in the second person rather than the third person. My take is
> that writing in the second person helps make the documents more approachable
> from the reader's standpoint. The more approachable the document is, the
> more likely it is to get read.
Do whatever will help the evaluators score your proposal in the most
favorable way for you. If they are grammarians, use the king's English. If
they are technical people, write for clarity. When they can't understand
what you're proposing, you'll get lower scores.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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