Monday

• Print Current Copy of Your Professional Resume

Resume Workshop

• Examples
• Rhetorical Principles
• Design Elements
• Tailoring to job Ad
• Check out resumes at ProvenResumes.com.

For next meeting

• Cover Letters: types and samples
• Begin Drafting Application Letter
• Read "The Rhetoric of Employment Documents" in PWOnline.
• Read especially the three sample Application Letters in the Samples and Templates section.
• Read in PW Online The Job Application Letter
• Read Kairos and the Cover Letter (read samples in class; these are not models (!) but show what happens when people try weird rhetorical approaches)
• Understanding Readers

Tuesday 

Bring a current copy of your cover letter based on Job Ad Analysis

DIscuss cover letter

• Boise State Cover Letter Handout
• Check out: http://www.refresher.com/!terjunk.html
• Check out OWL Action Verbs: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/543/02/

Wednesday 

• Workshop on your resume and cover letter

Thursday

Bring THREE copies of your Resume. 

Peers evaluation of employment documents

*Draft does not mean bring an incomplete/half effort to class. It means to write the best of your ability. You will only be able to get good, useful feedback IF you have completed, well-written (to the best of your ability) documents at the draft stage.

Friday 

Bring THREE copies of your cover letter for peers evaluation.

• Be a cynical reader.