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"Topoi" of Nonprofit Proposal Writing
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Emily Barrow DeJeu – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
Studies of the grant proposal tend to conflate academic research grant proposals with other kinds of nonprofit grant proposal genres, even though research and nonprofit grant proposals have different audiences and goals. To address this gap, this study draws on the Aristotelian concept of "topoi" (or typical arguments) and uses corpus…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Proposal Writing, Rhetoric, Grants
Comparative Analysis of Rhetorical Moves in Student and Professional Project Proposal Abstracts
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Tatiana Permyakova; Dmitriy Tulyakov; Ekaterina Balezina – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
Currently, the analysis of rhetorical moves is extensively applied to business genre conventions. This paper adopts a corpus-assisted genre approach to compare three major rhetorical moves in corpora of students' and professionals' project proposal abstracts to elicit evidence-based recommendations for the pedagogy of business communication. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Communication, Proposal Writing, Student Projects
Student Philanthropy: Experiencing Grant Proposals from the Funder's Perspective
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Bloch, Janel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
Student philanthropy projects empower students to become grant givers. Through learning by giving, students get hands-on practice making decisions with real monetary impact. This article explains the steps in a student philanthropy project in a grant-writing course, illustrating how business and professional communication courses can be a natural…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Private Financial Support, Grantsmanship, Grants
Artist Communication: An Interdisciplinary Business and Professional Communication Course
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Carradini, Stephen – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
The arts have not received much attention from business and professional communication (BPC) scholars who are interested in workplace communication. This article begins to fill that gap by explaining a course focused on the BPC that artists produce in their careers. Students learned BPC genres by addressing arts situations: They crafted email…
Descriptors: Artists, Interdisciplinary Approach, Business Communication, Electronic Mail
Selections from the ABC 2016 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Bright as Stars in the Albuquerque Desert Sky: Classroom-Tested Business Communication Assignments
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Whalen, D. Joel, Ed. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
This article, the first of a two-part series, presents 13 teaching innovations debuted at the 2016 Association for Business Communication's annual conference. The second edition of "My Favorite Assignment" will be published in the fall 2017 "Business and Professional Communication Quarterly". Assignments include international…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Assignments, Instructional Innovation, Electronic Publishing
Selections from the ABC 2016 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Teaching Innovations Soaring Like a Flight of Balloons over Albuquerque
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Whalen, D. Joel, Ed. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
This article, the second of a two-part series, presents 12 assignments designed to help students increase their online communication skills, conduct professional conferences, use advanced presentation software, develop problem-solving and critical thinking, gain greater awareness of gender effects in communication, and perform community service.…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
Selections from the ABC 2013 Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana: A Gumbo of Favorite Assignments: Global, Communicating Complex Information, Short-Message Packaging
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Whalen, D. Joel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
This article, the first of a two-part series, catalogs teaching innovations presented at the 2013 Association for Business Communication (ABC) Annual Convention, New Orleans. They were presented during the My Favorite Assignment session. The 11 Favorite Assignments featured here offer the reader a variety of learning experiences including…
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Innovation, Conferences (Gatherings), Cooperative Learning