Journal 12

Can you clearly see how the proposed book make a contribution to the field? What is the contribution? In terms of lexical and syntactic features, how can you tell whether the author is making a claim or not? Your proposal should have more than 400 words or 3 paragraphs, which means a lot shorter than this proposal. Can you adopt similar rhetorical strategies or a rhetorical structure in you proposal? Do you think the author of this proposal is well written in term of the following criteria?

Richard C. Sha's proposal is very thorough and I understand why it is so highly regarded. The paper proposes unique ideas that have yet to be considered. The author makes a statement and/or claim, then explains a different way of looking at it/ how they are going to consider it. Although the author's proposal is much longer than the one I will be drafting, I thing the rhetorical strategies and structure implemented by Sha can be adopted into mine as well. According to the criteria listed I think the author of the proposal did an incredible job hitting every single point given.