Week 4

Week 4

By Monday, June 30, at midnight

• Employment Project Step #1: T-Chart Due. You will create a mock T-letter, a new but growing genre in employment searches (see sample here), that aligns your skills with the company demands. In Microsoft Word, create a two column table. One one column of the table, list all the skills required by the company. In the other column, match your past experience with these requirements. In order to satisfy the company requirement, you must provide concrete institutional experience (work, school, volunteer job, organization, etc). So if they're looking for organization skills, you can talk about how you planned a fun run at work, but not about how clean you keep your room. Post the T-letter as an attachment to a blog. (Remember, Drupal cannot accept .docx files or files over 5 mb). Don't forget to tag the post under the Project 2 category in order for it to be considered turned it.

By Tuesday, July1, at midnight

• Read Instructor Blog #7: Cover Letters. Post a comment responding to, furthering, or challenging the ideas to the blog.
• Read Purdue OWL Cover Letter Quick Tips.
• Read Purdue OWL Preparing To Write a Cover Letter.
• Read Purdue OWL Writing Your Cover Lettter.

By July 2 at midnight

• Post a Reading Response to Tuesday's reading. Online, find two cover letter samples. In the blog, analyze the letters in reference to yesterday's reading, considering the following questions. Do you think they are effective? Why or why not? What specifically do you like or not like about each? What things do you want to model/avoid in each? Reference specifics from each letter and post a link or attach them. Don't forget to tag your Reading Response in the Reading Response category. Posts that are not tagged will not be graded.

By July 3 at midnight

• Post drafts of your resume and cover letter as an attachment to your own blog (this will allow other students to post peer editing comments underneath). Don't forget to attach. (Remember, Drupal cannot accept .docx files or files over 5 mb)

By July 4 at midnight

• Have a happy and safe July 4th weekend!

Check out Week 5. 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, contact the instructor.

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