For the proposal model that my group is doing we are developing, specifically a proposal for the purposes of improving things found in the community. Usually there are not a lot of genres that will precede these proposals as these proposals are usually one of the first steps in developing/building this project. But genres like notes or emails can transpire from conversations or meetings that a few individuals to a group of people within the community that can eventually lead to these people to develop this proposal. The uptake that can be found from these preceding genres don’t necessarily lead to the creation of these proposals. These notes and emails could lead to other things like articles found on the internet or local newspaper or phone calls to city board offices or fliers that lead to group meetings. As a result there could be many different routes in which uptake can go from one genre to another and how these paths lead to different approaches.
While we were building our genre model for project 2, our team looked at examples of proposals as well as looked into the background of why and how these proposals came to be. First we looked at more specific proposal examples that we used to know what all of the necessary elements and sections were needed in order to come up with the most complete model. After that we looked into a larger variety of proposals and tried to find commonalities between these different proposals to make sure that our model met the standards of a basic proposal.
The genres that typically follow this sort of proposal could be an RFP or bid or a more laid out plan that goes over the details of the execution of the proposal. Typically these are the more formal forms genre that will appear after a proposal is put out there. But there could be other genres that may come up directly or indirectly like emails, text messages, memos, etc. between the party taking the proposal or the party that put in the proposal.
The ways uptake can influence the way the genre is construed is by understanding what results you would prefer to see once you put the genre into play. What that means is that if you want a proposal that you would like to be received by a more general or crowd that is neither on one side or the other than maybe you would want to orient your proposal to give a very moderate input.
