Week 6 - Feb 11 - 17

By Monday, February 11 at midnight

No assignments due - work on revising your employment documents and drafting your Project Assessment Document (see the guidelines under Employment Project), as the entire Employment Project will be due on Wednesday night (steps 1-4).

By Wednesday, February 13 at midnight

Employment Project Due

  • Step 4: Project Assessment Document due: Create a two-page overview and analysis of your deliverables and the process you used to complete them. Your Project Assessment Document should answer most of the questions listed, each of which is tied to the major goals of the assignment. See the Employment Project handout for the full details of what's required.
  • By tonight at midnight, you should post to your blog a cover note for your final drafts of your Employment Project, steps 1-4. Collate all four steps together into a SINGLE pdf file and post in a single blog named "lastname-empproj1-4."
      The file should contain:
    • Job Ad
    • Job Ad Analysis
    • Cover Letter
    • Resume
    • Project Assessment Document
  • Read these directions for converting your documents to PDF format if you have any questions about the process.

By Friday, February 15 at midnight

  • Read the Project 2: White Paper description.
  • Read Writing Effective White Papers in TH p. 235-236
  • Post a reading response in which you discuss the white paper and your thoughts about Project 2.
      • Formation of project groups. Your instructor will place each of you into a group for Project 2. Each group will receive an email from the instructor identifying the members' full names and usernames and providing some instructions about how to get started. You should reply ASAP to everyone in that email with a quick introduction as the first step in getting to know your group. You should consider sharing alternate email, phone number, AOL instant messenger ID's, and any other contact information you feel is relevant for collaborating and communicating in Project 2. From this point on, the group is responsible for keeping in contact with each other and communicating as necessary to complete the project.
    • As a group, decide on a short, snazzy name for your group for project 2.
    • Begin discussing the topic options for project 2 (see the project 2 description for more information).
    • Instead of meeting in the chatbox, I would like each team to discuss the project, and send me a final, decisive email by Wednesday night at midnight next week. This email should include the team name and your topic choice for the white paper project.
    • If your group has any questions about the topic choice or the project in general, feel free to email me at any point, and cc all group members (unless the questions is of a personal nature).

      • Continue posting comments and replies using Principles for Comments and Replies. You need five (5) for this week. Again, peer reviews will not count toward this total, so be sure to post 5 other brief comments to your peers' resume drafts or to the blogs due on Friday night.