Week 5

By Monday, February 4 at midnight

Reading

• In Purdue's OWL:
  • Resumes 1: Introduction to Resumes
    
    Introduction to and Expectations for Resumes
  • Resumes 2: Resume Sections
  • Contact Information Section

    Education Section

    Work Experience Section
    Resumes 3: When to Use Two Pages or More

Employment Project

Continue drafting your resume. Your printable resume (one or more pages in length, depending upon the type of job and the depth of your experience) should adapt features drawn from The Thomson Handbook and from those available for review at the Online Writing Lab. It's critical that you shape your resume to the specific job or internship you have chosen to apply for (that it's suited to the context), so be sure to include only the relevant aspects of your professional experience. As in the Job Application Letter, your writing needs to be error-free, concise, and presented in an easily readable format.

Wednesday, February 6, by midnight.

Employment Project

Post your resume draft to your blog as a PDF attachment to a blog message that explains the nature of the attachment and invites peer feedback. Read these directions for converting your documents to PDF format if you have any questions about the process. You should also review the principles, guidelines, and resume samples in The Thomson Handbook (Chapter 12, pages 226-232). Pay special attention to the Project Checklist "Evaluating Your Resume's Content" and "Evaluating Your Resume's Design" on pages 228-229. Ask yourself these questions as you prepare your final draft.

Reading Response

• In a reading response content type, write 300 words based on these questions. Why do you think it's important for the form and content of a resume to change for different rhetorical situations? What are the drawbacks of submitting a "one-size-fits-all" resume with every application?

Friday, February 8, by midnight.

• Post a blog about the aspects of your letter and resume that you need to update and revise for the final due next Friday. This will serve as preliminatry writing for the Project Assessment Document draft due on Monday. ** Take a look at feedback you have so far from your peers.
  

Peer Review

• Complete two Peer Resume Responses to students' resume drafts. If there are already a number of responses to resume drafts, please respond to someone whose draft hasn't gotten any responses yet -- or, if everyone's been covered, choose someone whose draft has gotten just one response.
  

 

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Check out Week 6. No later than today, you should read through the course calendar for the following week. Make sure that you understand all of the assignments. If you have any questions, email the instructor.