Date

Class Meeting

For Next Class

In small groups, share job ads with classmates and identify:

• an interesting job ad
• an annoying job ad
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• a useful job search resource
• an overrated (iyho) job search resource
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• some job search/ employment document questions your group wants to discuss
• some good advice someone in your group has received

Further discussion of job searching strategies, employment project documents (job ad analysis, resumes, letters, portfolios), etc.

Letters & memos:

• formatting: sample memo (OWL) | Business Letter from 1907

Job Ad Analysis due next class.

Choose an ad that looks suitable for the employment project and complete the Job Ad Analysis form.

In TCT, read chapter 9, "Designing Documents and Interfaces";

Read through the OWL handout Higher Order and Later Order Concerns for Business Writing.

Start updating resume for Friday

Post 2 comments in response to 2 different classmates' first blog entry.

Review Job Ad Analysis forms:

1. Identify a few forms of feedback you'd find helpful (for example, "I can't find the company's history or mission statement": "Does my answer for question 3 make sense?")
2. Post your Job Ad Analysis form to your blog with a brief cover note explaining what feedback you'd like.
3. Form groups and compare ads and forms.

Introduction to document design (ppt)

We didn't get to the items below:

Finish letters/ memo overview: design, types, contexts

 In-class exercise: create letterhead for your job application letters

Cover letters and resumes (discuss samples in class):

• a bad resume (U of FA CRC)
• "Brenda's" cover letter
• "Advising Patricia" case study (handouts)
• Kairos and the Cover Letter (read samples at end of page; these are not models (!) but show what happens when people try weird rhetorical approaches)

Example from Found Magazine: possible contexts

Resume draft due next class

In TCT, read chapter 12, "Revising and Editing"

Resumes: questions, discuss one (the bad example or a volunteer's) as a class 

Peer-review of resumes

• Peer-response form

Informational Interviews (what, why, how)

If time:

1. Weekly blog #2: Informational interview plan
2. Draft cover letter due Wed
3. If you'd like additional resume feedback, bring your (revised) resume on Wednesday
4. do monthly assignment #1 if you like one of the options