| The Writing Assignment | 330 |
| Writing a Draft: Invention, Research, Planning, and Composing | 331 |
| Evaluating the Draft: Getting a Critical Reading | 341 |
| Improving the Draft: Revising, Formatting, Editing, and Proofreading | 343 |
Write an essay proposing a solution to a problem. Choose a problem faced by a community or group to which you belong, and address your proposal to one or more members of the group or to outsiders who might help solve the problem.
This Guide to Writing is designed to help you compose your own proposal and apply what you have learned from reading other essays in the same genre. This Starting Points chart will help you find answers to questions you might have about composing a proposal. Use the chart to find the guidance you need, when you need it.