Like other kinds of writing projects, a proposal starts with assessing the rhetorical situation—the circumstance in which a writer communicates with an audience of readers about a subject.
The writer explains that proposals begin by understanding the rhetorical situation, highlighting how important context, audience, and purpose are before drafting.
Plagiarism is putting one’s name on a paper written by a friend and submitting it as one’s own. Plagiarism is buying or downloading a paper from an Internet site and pretending to have written it. And plagiarism is pasting in a phrase, sentence, paragraph, passage, or portion of anybody else’s work in a paper and not giving that author credit. ln these examples, the intent to plagiarize is deliberate and obvious, something that serious and honorable students would never do. However, plagiarism also occurs when well-meaning students get careless when taking notes or copying notes into actual drafts. Following are three examples of unintentional plagiarism
This passage explains that plagiarism includes both intentional acts such as submitting someone else’s work or copying text without credit, and unintentional acts that happen when students are careless with note‑taking or drafting. The author emphasizes that even honest students can plagiarize accidentally, which is why understanding and avoiding these mistakes is essential.
Provide reliable information. in the form of specific facts, statistics, and examples.
Your proposal needs evidence. Show you’ve done your homework and use trustworthy sources.
Your purpose is your reason for writing.
Every proposal starts with a clear purpose — you’re not just writing, you’re trying to solve something.
also shows little to no evidence of the writer’s intent to meet or challenge conventional expectations in rhetorically effective ways.
This basically means the writing doesn’t show that the writer is trying to follow academic standards or intentionally break them in a smart, purposeful way. In other words, the writer isn’t using rhetorical strategies clearly, and there’s no sign of deliberate technique or stylistic choice.
Although the present tense is used in literary discussions and references to literary texts, some instances will occur in which you have to distinguish between times of events
This is the basic rule: when talking about what happens in a story, we usually use present tense.