Monday, February 11

Remember that your cover letter and resume drafts should be posted together, as a set. If you have not already done so, begin peer reviewing cover letter and resume sets. You need to peer review and comment on five sets by Wednesday midnight. All peer reviews should be posted as blog posts in Q & A format (copy the questions and paste them into a blog post, etc.). The questions that need to be answered for each cover letter may be accessed here, the questions for peer reviews of resumes here.

By Wednesday, February 13 at midnight

Complete five peer reviews of job application letters and the accompanying resumes following the directions listed. You will find the cover letter and resume drafts to be peer revised under the Employment Project node under Project Posts in the list at the left of your screen. As you are selecting a student's resume and cover letter to which to respond, try to pick ones that have not received any responses or ones that might have fewer responses than others. In your responses, make sure to answer all the questions given in the peer review guides and offer responses to any questions that might have been posted along with the resumes or cover letters. When you are finished, post your critiques as a response to the student's blog to whom you are responding.

You are not required to complete any assigned readings, reading responses, or comment/reply posts (the 5 posts you usually have to do) this week. Your only homework is to complete five peer reviews of other students' cover letter and resume drafts, and then revise and turn in your own final drafts of all the project components (see below), which are due by midnight Friday. Take your time and complete peer reviews thoughtfully, as your critiques will represent your entire grade this week. Remember to consider your audience. Be diplomatic, but honest; point out what the writer has done well, as well as what areas of the documents might need improvement; be detailed and specific in your comments in both instances. No one ever benefitted from generic comments, positive or negative, so remember: be specific.

By Friday, February 15 at midnight

Employment Project Due. Submit, by midnight, the following:

• Cover letter
• Resume
• Project assessment document: in no more than two pages (500 words), write an overview and analysis of your deliverables for the Employment Project and the process you used to complete them. Your Project Assessment Document should identify the most difficult aspects of the assignment, the best tools you gained from completing the assignment, and the things you would do differently if you were to complete the assignment again. See the Deliverables section of the Employment Project description, Step 4, for more complete guidelines for this component of the project.
• Cover note for your final drafts of your cover letter and resume: a document that includes links to your Step 1 and Step 4 documents. Read these directions for converting your documents to PDF format if you have any questions about the process.