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Architect's Essentials of Winning Proposals (The Architect's Essentials of Professional Practice)

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Stasiowski's 'Architect's Essentials of Winning Proposals' has some useful pieces of advice for readers who already know how to write an architectural proposal, but the text is not helpful for those who lack such knowledge. The main problem is lack of examples. He does present a few pertinent examples - the two cover letters (one good, one bad)- that illustrate the points he is making about cover letter. But these examples are the exception. True, the detailed proposals which are his subject are likely to be quite long and that may prohibit the inclusion of full samples of a resume - one of the elements of a proposal. But surely he could have given partial examples longer that a couple of lines. From a whole chapter on resumes he allocates about 10 lines of example sentences.

Thus the book is somewhat of a disappointment for someone coming to the subject for the first time. It is unfortunate because the literature offering advice on the topic is very sparse indeed.