Drafting a Routine Message - Read the following case study carefully, and develop a document as required. All information contained in the case study is fictional. Plan the content according to the principles covered in in the course (e.g., main idea first). Draft your document and proofread the text in detail. Give special attention to correct formatting, direct, positive, concise, and bias-free writing style. Check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Revise your document as thoroughly as possible.

Task: Write the message called for in the following situation, using

• correct formatting
• direct ("Main Idea First") organization
• reader-focused language and professional tone
• readability techniques.

As Manager of Professional Development at the Bank of Canadas Victoria office, you were excited to receive information about the annual conference of the International Society for Career Advancement (ISCA), to be held in Montreal, Quebec, April 26-30, 2020. The website of ISCA is: http://www.isca-vic.org/index.htm, and its goal is to provide career advancement training for people interested in this area. Its members are consultants and corporate employees who do business process improvement, project work, change management, and staff training.

Your sister, Nora, lives in Montreal, and you had already planned to visit her this year for a weeks holidays. Each staff member at your workplace is allowed up to $1,700.00 annually from a staff Professional Development (P.D.) Fund. The conference, Looking Ahead, promises to provide leading edge information on maximizing staff performance and employee motivation. The conference offers twelve small, concurrent sessions on major training and performance topics, and four plenary sessions with major names in corporate training. Plenary speaker sessions are included in the overall conference fee, which is $589.00 (early bird rate, before March 31, 2020; $700.00 after that date). Youve heard that sessions can fill up quickly, so you want to register as soon as possible.

The hotel will be approximately $180.00 per night (tax included). You cant stay with Nora, her husband, Jason, and their three children, Mia, Samantha, and Leon, during the conference, since they're in the middle of home renovations. After the conference, however, you dont mind staying with them.

Since you were going to fly to Montreal for your holidays at the end of April anyway, using P.D. funds for five hotel nights and the conference fee is your best bet. The conference fee includes lunches and two dinners, and Nora will insist on some home-cooking, so $200.00 total will probably cover the other meals. You've checked airfares: you can leave Victoria early and arrive in Montreal (Nora will arrange transport to and from the airport) late April 25, and stay five nights at the hotel before moving over on the evening of April 30 to your sisters place for a few days of vacation. You'll leave Montreal on May 8, to give yourself a few days at home to get over jet lag before going back to work after vacation on May 12. No one else from the office is planning to attend this conference because of the expense, even though they would love to hear about some of the sessions. The roundtrip airfare is $ 988.00 (including taxes).

Write a memo asking your Area V.P. (Western Canada) about getting financing from your office P.D. fund and time off to go to the conference. Make up any details necessary, as long as they are consistent with this case; use your own words -- some of this scenario may be written in poor English.