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Audience-Focused Communication Matrix
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Appendix B
Audience-Focused Communication Matrix
Use the matrix to complete the information. Write 3-4 sentences for each item.
What are some audience characteristics you need to consider?
What communication channels would be appropriate and why?
What would you do to ensure your message is effective?
What are some considerations you must keep in mind given the diversity of the audience?
Audience-Focused Communication
Audience Audience Characteristics Channels of Communication Strategies to Ensure Effective Messages Audience Diversity Considerations
Managers Management of team
Focus on bulding a competitive environment
Adaptable
Charmaistic
Great listener
Stable
Empathy
Written and verbal communication The message should be precise and upto the point
Salespeople Assertive
Empathy Email
Verbal Focused on apoint Customers Looks for high value
Need to focus on fulfilling their needs and desires
Telephone
Verbal
The message send and the communication needs to be very persuasive All Looks for high value
Need to focus on fulfilling their needs and desires
Assertive
Empathy
Written
Verbal
Electronic Persuasive
Effiective
Precise
Asthronomy Lab
Asthronomy Lab
Name
Date
Asthronomy Lab
Phase I: Exploration
After logging into the given cite, I was able to see a total of twenty stars. They were appearing larger than the galaxies which are far away from the Earth. Because of the small size of the stars, I had to expand their image of being a little bit larger than they were before. It is only because of this that I managed to count the twenty stars.
The total number of galaxies was twelve. This was ascertained after identifying a section of the image as was directed. All the number of objects in a quarter of the image was counted. Thereafter, the finding was multiplied by four to reach at the total number of galaxies for the whole image. This can be demonstrated in the following calculation:
One quarter = 3
Whole image = 4X3 = 12
Some of the galaxies are orange-red in color, while others are white, and others are blue.
The most common color of galaxies in this object is the blue. According to my observation, it was the most prominent color which could be seen in most of the galaxies present in the object. I think this is because they are appearing to be more spiral than any other type of galaxy which always has a different color. In this regard, the galaxies have to show the blue coloring, so as to fulfill this condition.
The galaxies are relatively far. This is because they appear smaller than usual when viewed. However, this cannot be compared to the stars which are positioned far away. I think this is because of their formation. Often, the formation of the Milky Way is a very long process which involves a series of reactions. This explains why these spiral galaxies appear to be far away. However, this does not mean that their diameters will differ. They remain the same, since these are similar objects despite their varying distances from the Earth. They, therefore, have to appear far when viewed in such an image.
Phase II – Does the Evidence Match a Given Conclusion?
I would agree with the generalization that “nearby galaxies are equally split between circular-round and elongated spiral shapes”, because it is accurate and is not misleading at all. It is a true observation of what is happening during the formation of galaxies. The image shows a collection of 10,000 galaxies which were formed millions of years ago. Because of this, the nearby galaxies have to be split between themselves besides having circular round elongated shape. This is typical of a galaxy which must always be seen to be appearing at varying distances.
In this regard, I would like to agree with the student for making such an assertion. In fact, it is a right observation which gives the right information about the galaxy as seen by a telescope. He was right for making such a generalization.
Phase III – What Conclusions Can You Draw From This Evidence?
The distribution of galaxies is not even. This is because the formation of stars must have taken place during different times. The information presented in the table is quite accurate because it gives in-depth information about what is happening as observed by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field researchers. This is a clear indication that such a distribution of galaxies can show a variation in size and shape depending on the distance under which it was covered.
At the same time, galaxies can be of different colors because of the distances they occupy at any given time. Actually, a telescope can help in capturing thousands of galaxies which have lots of stars in them. This is what is seen in this Hubble Ultra Deep Field distribution given in the above study.
Phase IV – What Evidence Do You Need To Pursue?
It is true that there is a difference between the numbers of nearby and extremely distant galaxies. This is in line with lots of researches which have been done by different scholars in this field. It is also true that there are more distant galaxies than the nearby ones. This is because a typical study done some distances away may show galaxies far away to be more than the nearby ones which are seen as whole objects occupying a bigger space. Their long distance enables them to orbit far from the galactic core as compared to the nearby galaxies. This kind of opposing force between these galaxies determines the difference in their numbers.
This process of evidence description is long and entails a lot of steps. It involves a series of studies using a telescope. When charged with such a responsibility, I would go to the blog and analyze how this can be done. First, the researcher should have all the required materials used for looking at the different types of galaxies available in the object observed. Then, he should go ahead to calculate their distances before determining their respective colors and shapes.
Phase V – Formulate a Question, Pursue Evidence, and Justify Your Conclusion
Specific research question here would be: “Is galaxy appearing far or near?” When carrying out such a study, it is essential to follow all the laid procedures. This will begin from carrying out a baseline study, so as to be acclimatized with the actual situation before beginning the analysis. It involves series of studies using a telescope. When charged with such a responsibility, I would go to the blog and analyze how this can be done. First, the researcher should have all the required materials used for looking at the different types of galaxies available in the object observed. Lastly, sort out their shapes before concluding the work.
The conclusion base on evidence will be that distribution is random, making the stars appear smaller and much in number.
Summary
This test was carried out well. The galaxies appear to be unevenly distributed in the whole region. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field study is clear evidence that galaxies are in different sixes depending on their distance from the Earth. Those seen near the Earth are bigger than those located far away. At the same time, it is important to clarify that stars are smaller than the galaxies. This is clear evidence on the fact that they are also located as varying distances.
Assignment-5-Final-Draft
ASB Budgeting Issue with School BBQ’s
Prepared by
Name Here
ASB Vice President
Private High School Name
November 22, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Executive Summary……………………………………………………………..………… 3
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….…… 4
Behind the Scenes……………………………………………………….….………………. 5
What We Ask………………………………………………………….………………………6
Conclusion………………………………………….………………………………………… 8
Recommendation…………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Works Cited………………………………………………….…………………………..… 9
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES PAGE
ASB Logo ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Your Invited …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
School Dance ……………………………………………………………………….………………….. 8
Executive Summary
Private School Name has been a great high school for me as I have grown up. However, with the recent changes to school policy that disallow the ASB from conducting its regular Friday school BBQ’s the Associate Student Body has lost more than half of its incoming funding.
The problem has raised concern to the ASB because we can no longer plan the same caliber of events that we were previously planning for the school. The ASB does not have a budget on a yearly or monthly basis given to it. The funding that the ASB used to plan the dances was generated by the weekly BBQ’s that it was performing as a service to the school.
I propose that the ASB be allowed to perform its weekly BBQ’s so that it can attain the funding needed to perform school wide events and keep the moral of students raised. If the ASB is not allowed to perform its BBQ’s to obtain funding then I would purpose that the school establishes a monthly or yearly budget for the ASB so that it can perform the duties that were previously expected of it.
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The Associate Student Body of my old high school has been facing a problem for as long as I can remember. The ASB has been fighting a dilemma of underfunding for years now, and it has really put a hold on the high school experiences of many different kids at school. The problems I am referring to stem from the low attendance rate, which leads to underfunding for all departments of the school. Personally I was in many different organizations throughout my high school career. I played sports, sang in the choir, and even was elected Vice President of the entire school. My experiences at the high school were much different than that of the average high school student. Typically in your average high school class there are more than 500 people just in a single grade, at my high school I graduated with 17 others in total. Our school was small and underfunded, but it provided me a great education. Spending my almost my whole academic career at this school (2nd Grade – 12th Grade) I can definitely speak on behalf of the school and say with confidence that some aspects of the school were incredible while others were lacking terribly. ( Marguerite, 2009)
The particular aspect that I feel most needs to be addressed at my old high school was an issue with the ASB not being able to attain any funding for school wide events. The ASB at the beginning of the school year started with an average budget of between $500 and $1000 dollars. This was usually a bank left by the ASB of the previous year to help get the new ASB off to a running start. This amount of money is trivial when we realize that with this money has to be used to run most of the school events, and by the end of the year you have to have the same amount of money you started with. The initial funding of the ASB was usually used to purchase snacks and food for school wide events. Each day the ASB was allowed to sell snacks at the 15 minute break during the day. The snacks being sold usually consisted of candy bars, muffins, chips, soda, and water. These were mandated to be sold at a low price averaging between 50 and 75 cents per items. These low prices allowed students to be able to snack on something in the middle of the day for a low price. However with prices like these the ASB made little profit. (Calleros, 1995)
Usually with small profits which were limited further by the amounts of sales which averaged between $25 and $100. The ASB pulled in daily revenue, but frequently most of the money was put back into product costs. This left the ASB underfunded and unable to plan certain high school events such as Homecoming, Spring Formal, Sadie Hawkins Dance, and more. The ASB was not granted any tuition funding from the school and was therefore unable to plan nice events that the high school students deserved. To combat this problem the ASB initiated school wide fundraisers by sending “grams” during the holidays. Students were able to send letters from other students by buying gram from the ASB who then distributed the grams with a piece of candy. This made some initial profits for the ASB, but didn’t amount to the $1000’s of dollars needed to plan events that the ASB was responsible for. (Spaulding, 1918)
Finally the ASB came up with a way to make money that both the students enjoyed, and was profitable. The ASB began to do BBQ’s one Friday a month and ran them for profit. Students were able to purchase hamburgers, chips, and drinks, and more for a low price that offered the ASB some room to make some money. This BBQ’s proved to be very profitable for the ASB, and began to run BBQ’s on multiple Friday’s a month. Soon thereafter the school contested the BBQ’s because students were no longer buying the school provided lunches. The school was making money off of the lunches, but it was minuscule compared to the amount that the ASB was able to make for its Friday BBQ’s. The ASB’s funding was again cut off. This cutting off of funds left the ASB dry without money. This forced the ASB to charge students outrageous prices to come to dances and other events. Outraged by this I decided to write a proposal that outlined why the school should either provide a yearly budget to the ASB for events or allow the ASB the opportunity to make money from the school wide BBQ’s.
Behind the Scenes
The job of the ASB
The purpose of the ASB is to plan and provide for school related activities. The ASB has worked tremendously hard to provide an environment enjoyable to high school students of Calvary Christian School. The ASB currently has enough funding to run day to day school wide activities, however with the recent limiting of the school wide BBQ’s the amount of funding for after school activities has dropped. The ASB cannot provide decent events for high school students.
The needs of the ASB
The ASB needs to be provided with the ability to subsidize its own events or it needs to have funding provided by the school. The ASB has in the past ran BBQ’s for profit and been able to subsidize after school events by acquiring funds from the students who wish to have a good school lunch. Currently the school provides lunches each day of the week for a price of $4.00 per lunch, however recently the ASB has been debunked of its Friday BBQ’s because it has been dipping into the school’s lunch revenue. The ASB brings in an average of $400 in revenue each Friday it has a BBQ, however the school averages about $100 in revenue from its daily BBQ’s, this amount to $500 a week, or $400 a week if the ASB runs its BBQ’s on Fridays. The ASB would like to purpose that it be allowed to run its Friday BBQ’s or have the school subsidize the ASB its $400 a week.
The past funding of the ASB
In the past the ASB was able to run BBQ’s and subsidize its cost for 3 annual school dances. The average cost of these dances was around $4500 each that must be provided for by the ASB. This is to keep ticket prices low and around $40 per individual who wishes to attend any dance. These dances usually have around 100 attendees and results in a total cost of around $8500 for an event. These events are held 3 times a year. Previously the ASB was making on average about $1600 a month from school BBQ’s however now that the funding from BBQ’s has been removed the school dances can no longer be paid for by the ASB. Over the course of 3 months of BBQ’s the ASB was able to provide for the costs of the school dances. However now that the BBQ’s are being stopped the ASB can no longer afford to provide for the BBQ’s.
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What we ask
The proposal of the ASB
The ASB would purpose that the school either decides to subsidize the ASB’s school dances at the cost of $4500 per dance or allow us to continue having the school BBQ’s to fund our events. The ASB would further propose that if the school is truly upset about the revenue being lost from the lunch meals that the ASB would pay the school a dividend of $100 a week to be able to perform the school BBQ’s. This would be a comprisable point between the two arguments at stake. This way the ASB is still able to make an average of $300 off of its weekly BBQ’s, and the school does not take a $100 week revenue hit.
A breaking point
The ASB can no longer provide school dances for the students without some sort of compromise on this issue. Please consider funding our school dances or allowing us to be able to conduct the weekly BBQ’s. Without these school dances, morale of students would decrease and could possibly end up with even less students being able to come to the school. Right now the school is running most of its extracurricular programs with an extremely low budget. The ASB would like to be able to continue the dances without impacting the school’s budget at all.
Conclusion
A friendly agreement
The ASB would like to be as civil in its request for funding as possible. We would like to assume that the school realizes how much of a burden it creates for the ASB when it takes away its funding. The ASB cannot carry out its fundamental duties when it doesn’t have the necessary funds to do so. By keeping the ASB well-funded and happy the school provides the ASB with the opportunity to make the students happy with their experiences at school. Without money for nice events the ASB gets blamed, and therefore the school gets blamed for “lame” events.
The final decision
The final decision lies with the principal and the school board. The ASB hopes that we find favor with the school board by either allowing us to continue funding ourselves via school BBQ’s or that we would have an approved monthly or yearly budget set aside for school wide functions. The money is there for the school BBQ’s and the ASB is willing to do the work, we just ask that you and the school board are willing to let us. The ASB would hate to see its primary source of funding dropped. Please consider the hard working students of the school and how much they deserve to be rewarded for the effort that they put into their school work. (Finn, 1993)
A reminder
The ASB is more than willing to donate a percentage of its profits to the school lunch system so that any revenue that was previously being generated by the school lunch system can continue to be made. This should be a reasonable solution so that the school continues to generate its monthly lunch revenue, and the ASB is able to fund its school functions.
Recommendation
I highly recommend the reimplementation of the school BBQ’s. This ensures that both the school and the ASB continue to receive the money necessary for both parties to retain their budgets. The school cannot expect to have happy students without a happy ASB. With the Reimplementation of the BBQ’s the ASB will be more than happy to continue to serve the student of this great school.
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Works Cited
Marguerite, R. (2009). Breaking down school budgets.Education Next, 9(3), Retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://educationnext.org/breaking-down-school-budgets-2/” http://educationnext.org/breaking-down-school-budgets-2/
Spaulding, F. (1918). The making of a school budget. The School Review, 26(9), 684-695. Retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://www.jstor.org/stable/1078320” http://www.jstor.org/stable/1078320
alleros, C. R. (1995). Training a diverse student body for a multicultural society. Retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/berklarlj8&div=12&id=&page” http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/berklarlj8&div=12&id=&page=
Finn, J. D. (1993). School characteristics related to student engagement. The Journal of Negro Education,62(3), 249-268. Retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://www.jstor.org/stable/2295464” http://www.jstor.org/stable/2295464