For writing project two, my team is focusing in on project proposals. More specifically public initiative proposals for projects that aim to improve a community by presenting a laid out plan detailing the problem at hand, possible solution and ways to achieve the solution. A number of different forms of both official and unofficial texts revolve around the planning, writing, and presenting of a project proposal.
Prior to receiving any sort of proposals, a city usually has to publish a public RFP (request for proposals) to inform the community of an opportunity to develop the city in some way whether that be to form a youth basketball league, rebuild the town library, or instal a new public art exhibit in the park or public areas. Prior to the RFP, towns usually hold a meeting or forum to discuss the possibility of implementing this new project and to gather ideas and opinions on specific details that the project should achieve. This information collected at the meeting will be the information that is processed and simplified down into a set of requirements to be published in the RFP. Because the project and proposals will all affect the community as a whole, much of the information being distributed on each level will be made public for people to read and ask questions about and are therefore meant for wider consumption by anyone who is interested. No part of this proposal process is internal to any particular organization. There may be associated internal communications within the companies or groups creating proposals to be submitted, but their final proposal is meant to be submitted to the city (or a group working on behalf of the community) to become public record.
Genre repertoires seem like a very interesting perspective to take when researching the proposal production process. It is definitely meant to be communicative in an official setting. However a lot of the process that surrounds the proposal process is both sequential in its official format, but unofficially there is a lot of overlap between the different genres associated with them.
