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Which statement is true about RNA?  

Assignments can be turned in at any point in the semester and there is no late penalty. 

If you are happy with your grade after Exam 4, you do not have to take the Final Exam and that score will be dropped.

All exams will be given using ________, which is a secure online proctor.

Read over the case study instructions.  Email Case Study: Tone Focus: Balance an Urgent Work Task with Coworker Needs Best practices recommend meeting people where they are before raising professional concerns. When a colleague is visibly going through something difficult, leading with the task, however urgent, risks damaging the relationship and your reputation. Staying silent when the organization’s goals are at stake has consequences too. In this case, you’ll practice following up on a work task while a colleague is dealing with a personal issue.    Situation You and a peer colleague, Marcus Morgan, have spent the past two months co-leading your company’s annual community service day, a high-visibility, all-hands volunteer event that draws attendance from senior leadership, including the VP of Operations and the Chief People Officer. Your manager has described the event as one of the most important culture-building moments of the year. You and Marcus split the work evenly: you’ve been managing internal communications and volunteer registration, while Marcus handles all vendor contracts, the event-day logistics timeline, and the online sign-up platform. The event is in two weeks. Marcus briefly mentioned in a small group work conversation that he’s been getting headaches/migraines more often, which caused him to go home early a few times last week. In the conversation, he attributed it to not taking enough breaks from looking at his computer screen and stress from project deadlines. He’s been gone Monday through Wednesday of the current week. You heard from another team member that Marcus just got some test results he was waiting on from his doctor, but there’s no indication that he’s formally out on leave. This morning, your manager sent you a message asking for a full event status update by end of day Friday, including vendor confirmations, volunteer numbers, and the finalized logistics timeline. You have your half of the information, but everything on Marcus’s side is either in his accounts or in his head. You do not have access to the vendor portal, and the logistics document lives in a folder he hasn’t shared with you. It is Wednesday afternoon. His status on your company’s messaging platform shows him as active, though he hasn’t responded to a routine message you sent Tuesday.   Audience Marcus is at the same level in the organization as you, and you have a collegial but not deeply personal relationship. You genuinely like him and want to be supportive. You do not know how serious his diagnosis is, how he is feeling day to day, or what his plans are regarding work. You also do not know whether your manager is aware of the situation.   Task Write a professional email to Marcus. Your email should acknowledge that something significant may be going on for him personally and express care, while also raising the question of how to handle the work you share. Be thoughtful about how you reference what you may or may not know about his situation, and consider carefully how you frame the urgency of your manager’s request. You may use details from the prompt but must write in your own words. Do not simply restate the scenario. * * * Required Context Statement: The purpose of the context statement is to give the instructor(s) reading your message the information they need in order to understand the decisions you made when composing your email. In a brief paragraph (~50-100 words) at the top of the page, provide any relevant details about the situation/audience that aren’t provided by the prompt. If this case offered different task/audience options, clearly note which options you selected and why. You may also explain any information that you took into account when writing the message but did not include in the message itself.

Complete a ROAM + WIIFM analysis. “After reading this message, [Readers] will realize [Objective], so they will [desired Action] and think of me/us as [desired iMpression].” Reader + WIIFM: Who is the audience and what do they care about (both in general and in this specific situation)? What kind of context/information/evidence will be most persuasive to them, given their priorities? Objective: How will you change the reader? What do you want to make them feel/realize/understand? Action: What do you want the reader to do? (If they do what you want, it’s likely because you succeeded in your objective.) What do you need to provide so that the reader can complete this action as quickly and easily as possible? iMpression: What will the reader think of you? How do you want the message to make you come across? What do you need to do (or avoid) in your message to create this impression?   Think about how you would approach this in real life and how it relates to your personal and professional experiences. Do you think email is the best option in this situation? Or would you rather phone, video call, talk about it in person, or communicate some other way? Why? If you were to have a conversation rather than send a written message, what’s the first thing you would say? What if the other person gets upset? What would be your contingency plan? Have you witnessed someone handle this kind of situation, or experienced it yourself? What happened?

In Unified Modeling Language (UML) Class diagrams, a Class is represented by a rectangle.

In the value chain, what primary activity immediately follows “Inbound Logistics”?

Read the case study instructions. Spend some time exploring and choosing a professional conference according to the instructions.  Request for Approval: Conference Attendance This message should not exceed 1.5 single-spaced pages.  Attending conferences is one way professionals stay up to date in their fields and learn about trends and solutions to common industry issues from other professionals. In this case, you will practice determining which conference and events seem most useful to someone in your career path and then make the case for attending the conference.   Situation & Audience Your boss, Esther Kwamboka, is concerned about the advancements of rivals in the industry and wants employees to take an evidence-based approach to innovation and competition. You’ve been researching conferences in your field and found one that you think would be impactful. Persuade Esther to send your team to the most useful and relevant annual conference in your career path. The team is very busy and has a limited budget, so justify the time away and the cost of attending by showing the conference’s utility for your team.  Choose a specific role at a real company that interests you and is relevant to your career path.    Task Choose the Most Relevant Conference Explore relevant conferences for your selected company and job role. Most professional organizations hold conferences; see the Suggested Sources for Industry Audiences in the Workplace Communication and Professional Research Guide to start your research.  Choose an upcoming conference held by a national association in your field with an accessible agenda and/or session summaries with descriptions. Ensure the conference is in-person (not virtual) and has at least 1-3 days of multiple sessions.  Determine whether the conference is aligned with your team’s interests and goals. For example, some conferences organized by the American Marketing Association are tailored to the interests of academic researchers rather than marketing managers or analysts who work for companies. If the conference has already been held, you can use the agenda from last year’s conference and pretend it’s upcoming. Review conference sessions and consider which ones are most relevant to your team’s work/tasks. When selecting sessions, consider what you know about your chosen job role/company, what you learned from your informational interview for this or other classes, your own internship/work experience, speaker/recruiter events, class lectures, and/or relevant events in business or world news.   Write Your Message Request approval to attend the conference by writing a persuasive message explaining why this conference has value for your specific team and how it helps support your company’s future objectives. Make sure to anticipate and address your reader’s probable questions and concerns: Suggest to Esther two key topics/themes relevant to your specific team’s work. Choose a minimum of two conference sessions/events per theme for your team to attend (four events total).  Demonstrate the importance to your team of specific sessions/panels, keynote speeches, or workshops offered during the conference.  Offer a brief estimate of the per-person cost.   * * * Note on Format: Your email should be highly accessible and skimmable and use business style. To highlight information, use clear, logical headings that communicate your main ideas. Use textual features such as bold, bold-italics, varied font size, lists, white space, etc. and other formatting and organizing knowledge you learned from our readings and recommendations in the Workplace Communication and Professional Research Guide, including Design Principles and Graphic Emphasis. Consider your audience’s needs and expectations when determining your email’s design. Required Context Statement: The purpose of the context statement is to give the instructor(s) reading your message the information they need in order to understand the decisions you made when composing your email. In a brief paragraph (~50-100 words) at the top of the page, provide any relevant details about the situation/audience that aren’t provided by the prompt. If this case offered different task/audience options, clearly note which options you selected and why. You may also explain any information that you took into account when writing the message but did not include in the message itself. If you used AI in drafting or revising your email, please disclose how and why you used it during the drafting process.   Evaluation Criteria for Final Draft Rubric will be available in the final draft assignment on Canvas; each evaluation criteria bullet is a rubric line First draft will be graded on completion (should contain all elements the assignment prompt requests and be a full draft) Subject Line—focused, specific, meaningful Salutation—appropriate to relationship with recipient Opening: Details/Context—includes email purpose and details needed for future use; orients recipient with sufficient context Tone—correct application of “you” view/WIIFM; formality level matches relationship with recipient; effective word choices; will not damage relationship with recipient or your professional reputation Body: Details—includes enough details to clearly explain the situation and to allow the recipient to move forward/respond; details are specific and succinct Body: Context—includes explanation of/reasons behind details and/or detail selection Organization—logical information flow and grouping of information; well-organized paragraphs and lists that each address a single idea/topic Conclusion/Ending—relationship-building; forward-looking; includes next steps/call to action if appropriate Closing/Sign-Off—appropriate to situation and relationship with recipient Sentence Construction—smooth, clear, easy-to-read sentences Concision and Style—concise business writing, active voice, no fluff/guff/geek/weasel or overly generic language Proofreading—error-free Formatting: Design—emphasizes key information and has high skim value; effective, logical, and parallel use of headings, lists, and/or tables; block formatting Formatting: Graphic Emphasis—effective use of bold, italics, font sizes, bullets, numbers, spacing, etc. to indicate importance of and relationships between pieces of information Note which conference you’ve chosen. (You’ll compose your email below; here, just note which conference you’ve picked.)