Proposal
Recommend a feasible future plan through audience-aware writing.
Write for the situation
Audience
people able to approve the plan
Purpose
Recommend a feasible future plan
Register and tone
Constructive, persuasive and practical
Avoid
A retrospective report with no implementable plan
Conventions that help the reader
A title and purpose; clear headings; explanation of need; proposed actions; resources or feasibility; benefits and recommendation. These are adaptable guidance: task, audience and purpose decide the choices.
A flexible route through the text
- 1Need and aim
- 2Proposed actions
- 3Resources and risks
- 4Benefits and request for approval
Language to develop
Choose precise verbs and examples. Connect reasons and consequences, qualify claims when necessary and vary sentence forms without forcing unfamiliar language.
Planning question
Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Model extract · Social organization
This original teaching extract shows selected choices. It is shorter than a complete Paper 1 response and is not an IB-marked exemplar.
Proposal: a peer-mentoring pilot
Aim
Help new students understand school routines and join one activity of their choice.
Plan
Recruit volunteers, provide a short training session and arrange four scheduled meetings for each pair. The student-support coordinator would supervise the pilot.
Resources and safeguards
The scheme requires a meeting space, an adult contact and a clear process for changing partners. Mentors should not be expected to manage serious personal concerns.
Recommendation
Approve a small pilot and review participant feedback before expanding it.
Read as a writer
Find evidence of the intended reader, purpose and register. Identify a convention that makes the text usable.
Explore the content
Underline an example, reason or practical detail. Explain what it contributes, then develop the next paragraph yourself.
Connect it to each core theme
Identities
Your school is considering a multilingual welcome project.
Write a proposal for people able to approve the plan. Explain the need, propose feasible actions and resources, and recommend how success should be reviewed.
Theme connection: how language choices shape belonging.
Planning focus: Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Plan this taskExperiences
Your school is considering a student exchange programme.
Write a proposal for people able to approve the plan. Explain the need, propose feasible actions and resources, and recommend how success should be reviewed.
Theme connection: what students gain from an unfamiliar experience.
Planning focus: Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Plan this taskHuman ingenuity
Your school is considering an AI-supported language-learning app.
Write a proposal for people able to approve the plan. Explain the need, propose feasible actions and resources, and recommend how success should be reviewed.
Theme connection: how technology helps learners and where its limits lie.
Planning focus: Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Plan this taskSocial organization
Your school is considering a school peer-mentoring programme.
Write a proposal for people able to approve the plan. Explain the need, propose feasible actions and resources, and recommend how success should be reviewed.
Theme connection: how a community can support newcomers.
Planning focus: Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Plan this taskSharing the planet
Your school is considering a student-led food-waste project.
Write a proposal for people able to approve the plan. Explain the need, propose feasible actions and resources, and recommend how success should be reviewed.
Theme connection: how individuals and institutions can reduce waste.
Planning focus: Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Plan this taskTeach, practise and refine
- Read a real example of this text type and identify its readership and purpose.
- Annotate the model extract, then discuss how a different audience would change its wording.
- Select a theme task. Plan all required actions before writing; develop examples rather than listing them.
- Draft independently, review audience and task coverage, then revise one paragraph.
Teacher language
Who does what, and why is your proposal workable?
Support without fixing every sentence
Offer an audience–purpose planning grid, a few useful connectors and oral rehearsal. Then remove the paragraph openings and ask for independent wording. Extend by developing an alternative viewpoint or a justified qualification.
Self-check
- Have I addressed every instruction?
- Do the reader, purpose, tone and conventions match?
- Does each main idea have a developed example or explanation?
- Have I checked verb forms, reference, spelling and punctuation?