A proposal, as I always tell my students, is one of the English B text types you are most likely to produce when you leave education and join the world of work. I have lost count of the number of times I"ve come up with an (obviously brilliant) idea in a meeting, only to be told, "Excellent, could you put that in a proposal?" Inevitably, this doesn"t always happen, but when I do get around to producing one, I always...