Mock Request for Proposal

Administrative assistants must be able to handle challenging situations and many details at once. The assistants are what keeps an office running while supporting the efforts of a business owner executive, manager, or professional group. Their main responsibility is to keep their place of employment running smoothly, thus all of their duties relate back to the operational proceedings of an office. These duties may include scheduling meetings, answering phones, managing databases, disseminating information (through email and internal memos), creating spreadsheets, generating reports, ordering equipment, and working with clients or customers. People who demonstrate these skills in this field can advance to higher

Q1: Why and how is the job market for administrative professionals growing or declining? What effect do you think the economy and technology have had on the field?

As a freshman at the University of Maryland, I am pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Cyber Security. I formerly attended the Academy of Health Sciences at Prince George’s Community College, a dual enrollment program in which I graduated with my High school diploma and an Associates of Arts degree in General Studies. Having a unique experience by attending these different school has allowed me to become familiar with technical communication in a multitude of ways, whether it is in the work place or school related. Being vice president of the national honor society, being a barista at Peet’s coffee shop, and with being fluent in multiple languages I have used technical communication to encourage people to “take action” in a multitude of ways. Whether it was influencing people to join the national honors society or trying to get customers to buy a new coffee drink, I have consistently been able to encourage others to “take action” with whatever it may be. Over time I have learned the do’s and don’ts of being a technical communicator, and I now understand what must be done to accomplish a task through technical communication.

How has technology changed the communication process? Has technology changed the way people communicate in business?

*** was founded with a mission to be an alternative to incarceration. The organization is a private, free-standing, non-profit agency which is accessible to all, regardless of economic, ethnic or religious backgrounds. Since 1971, ***. has provided a highly successful, comprehensive, continuum of behavioral health services. Our formal treatment services have helped over 20,000 young people and their families. Under the *** umbrella, broad arrays of evidence-based prevention services have also been implemented in the treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders. With their focus on identifying risk and protective factors, these programs have helped to educate and support

With technology, we’ve become more efficient in our efforts of understanding communication. We’ve created machines that can take us a step closer to not only communicating better; but assisting us in understanding the fundamentals. James explains in “Communication as Culture” how a telegraph altered the relation between communication and transportation and also changed how communication was understood. “The telegraph, then, not only altered the relation between communication and transportation; it also changes the fundamental ways in which communication was thought about. It opened up new ways of thinking about communication….for the alteration of ideas. (204)”

I was pleased to discover the position of Development Intern among the Internship Opportunities at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. I am a current senior studying the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, and I am interested in a administrative position with your organization. I believe I have both the administrative and computer proficiency skills you are seeking.

Philip Rubens' article, "The Impact of Innovative Communication Technologies: Online Documentation, the Reader, and the Writer" will be used to survey the foundational materials and concerns with the reader/writer relationship that developed in response to new and purely digital based text. Janice Tovey's article, "Computer Interfaces and Visual Rhetoric: Looking at the Technology" being written nearly ten years after Rubens' will provide a snapshot into the furthering developments and insights that came in response to an expansion of digital technologies and new interfaces for writers. Moreover, Tovey's work expands on Rubens' work into the affect that these technologies had on the reader/writer relationships. Lastly, the article written by Stuart Blythe (et al.), "Professional and Technical Communication in a Web 2.0 World" will be used first examine the range of fields that the technical communicator operates in a professional capacity and as a result suggestions on possible refocusing a pedagogy that is inclusionary to "visual design" (Blythe et al. 281).

For my final project, I will be using a grant proposal that I am working on for my job as a grant writer for the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (FSO). The grant proposal is part of an application for general operating support from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation for the FSO’s 2016-2017 concert season (September 2016-May 2017).

The purpose of this article is to detail the process of a group of professors to better prepare electrical engineering students for technical communication. After meeting with industrial partners and discovering that students from their engineering program lacked proficiency in report writing and communication skills, the professors sought to give the students more exposure to these types of communication. In order to do this, the students are asked to prepare both memoranda and project reports for a specified assignment. The expected format, content, and an outcome model is uploaded to a website that the students can access, and they are then expected to mimic these examples. The ending products of the assignment were then graded by a separate professor and each student

Read through the whole RFP and change words where needed, ie. change “Your Company” to a company name of your choosing. Add some clip art if you feel the need to. And erase this part before submitting.

In today’s highly technologically oriented world, people have begun to communicate in innovative ways, which include, inter alia, telephones, cell-telephones, smartphones, handheld electronic devices, tablets, email, video conferencing, instant messaging or text messaging. With the advent of the information revolution at the turn of the century, the concept of professional communication has been repeatedly redefined to accommodate the contemporary trends, methods and changes that communication in the corporate world has witnessed. Many of the theories in professional communication are derived from traditional communication, technical writing, rhetorical theory and ethics. According to Julia Wood (2004), communication is “a systemic process in which individuals interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings.”

Douglas, Y., 2008, 'How Plain Language Fails to Improve Organizational Communication', Research Paper, Center for Management Communication.

s Proposal of Business Simulation Program FinanceOne Financial Consulting (China) Co., Ltd. January, 2006 Contents Marketplace Simulation & Its Objectives to Participants and your company …3 Who Are Using Marketplace ………………… ……………………………… 5 Game Scenario and Decisions by Quarters …………………………………7 Targeted Participants……………………………………………………………… 9 Program Level of Difficulty and Decisions by Functions……………………… 10 Program Schedule 1 (3 days) & 2 (2 days comparison) ………………………12 Facilitator Background…………………………………………………………… 14 Program Expenses …………………… ………………………………………… 18 Project Flow on Customerization…………………………………………………19 Marketplace Simulation &

• Mass: Print Media Electronics Media Organizational Website Before communication can take place, a purpose, expressed as a message to be conveyed, is needed. It passes between a sender and a receiver. The message is encoded and passed by a way of some medium to the receiver, who decodes the message initiated by the sender. The result is transference of meaning from one person to another person. The key parts of the communication process are (1) the sender (2) encoding (3) the channel (4) decoding (5) the receiver (6) feedback. The sender initiates a message by encoding a thought. The message is the actual physical product from the senders encoding. When we speak, the speech is the message. When we write, the writing