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Mucus
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Hmmmm, something a little out of my normal comfort area. I've been asked to work jointly on a technical proposal report in order to provide information to another business for a contract.

Someone else will be working on a separate report for the marketing side thankfully, but I still need some guidelines for the technical part.

Anybody have some favourite textbooks on the subject (I don't mind additional information on other forms of technical reports in the text either).

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What are you looking for? Books about proposals in particular, books about technical writing in general, or a template from which to start?

For a guide to writing proposals, try this:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~ebrown/infobr3.htm

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If you are looking for technical communication books, I recommend the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=allyn+%26+bacon+technical+communications&x=0&y=0

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quote:
Originally posted by katharina:
... Books about proposals in particular, books about technical writing in general, or a template from which to start?

Maybe more the first and third, although the second is welcome as well if people have particular favourites which also happen to cover business proposals as well.
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Are the links I posted what you are looking for?
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I like the specifics in the first guide, although I'll have to modify it a bit for a corporate environment that still does R&D.

I'll make a trip out tommorow to see about the A&B series and if I can locate it in the nearby bookstores, university or otherwise.

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