Agenda

Registration:                       8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:               8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Lunch (On your own):        12:00 – 1:00 pm

Afternoon Session:             1:00 – 5:00 pm

Proposal Types and the Writing Process

   Proposal types and formats: Internal, external, unsolicited, solicited

   Proposal content

   The writing process

   Exercises to help you retain and use what you’ve learned

Planning and Creating the Successful Proposal

   Preparing a capture plan

   Forming a proposal-writing team

   Examining solicitation documents and successful proposals for helpful information

   Exercises to help you plan a successful proposal

Drafting Proposals and RFPs

   Creating a proposal outline

   Structure and organization

   Writing process

   Specific suggestions for drafting various proposal components

   Writing tips for drafting RFPs and other solicitation documents

   Exercises to help you draft a successful proposal

Revising and Editing the Successful Proposal

   Assembling a review team

   Overview of the review process

   Editing for length and structure

   Editing for grammar, spelling and punctuation

   Editing collaboratively

   Exercises to help you polish your proposal

Credits

Professional Engineers
     7.0 PDHs

Architects
     7.0 Continuing Ed. Hours
     7.0 AIA Learning Units

Contractors
     Non-Credit Continuing Ed.


Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers and 7.0 continuing education hours to architects in most states. Educators and courses for Pennsylvania engineers are not subject to pre-approval in Pennsylvania.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA. Architects please note: The AIA does not classify these Learning Units as HSW. Do not claim the hours earned at this seminar if your state of licensure does not accept coursework that is not considered HSW.

HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.

This program offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing entity for continuing education approval.

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.

Speakers

Dr. Mark Decker, PhD

Professor and Department Chair in the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania’s English Department

Dr. Decker teaches in support of Commonwealth University’s Professional Writing minor. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Commonwealth. Dr. Decker has PhD and MA degrees in English from The Pennsylvania State University (2001, 1997) and he graduated summa cum laude in English from Utah State University (1995).

While an undergraduate, Dr. Decker worked for several years as a staff writer for Aerotech News and Review, an aerospace and defense industry trade newspaper published in Lancaster, California. During graduate school, Dr. Decker was a member of the Leonhard Center for Technical Writing Initiative, a collaboration between Penn State’s Department of English and College of Engineering designed to promote an exchange of ideas between technical writing instructors and the scientific and engineering communities. Dr. Decker also taught Business Writing, Technical Writing, and an Advanced Technical Writing course that enrolled graduate students from technical and scientific disciplines.

After graduate school, Dr. Decker spent four years at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where he taught Technical Writing in support of that school’s major in Technical Communication and served as the advisor for the student chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Dr. Decker has given presentations at several national and international conferences and has published both a book and a co-edited book as well as several scholarly articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia chapters.