WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments

WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments

WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments

WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 joining Career Quest

Please access the Career Services website at the following url: \current-students/career-services/

• Then access the CareerQuest website by selecting the option indicated at the right:
• careerquest
• Then select CareerQuest for Students, as indicated by the red arrow below:
• carqueststudents
• Proceed through the interface to join the CareerQuest community as a student and complete your profile.
• Explore the various options in CareerQuest, including recently posted jobs and other resources and online tools. Joining the CareerQuest community will help you complete various upcoming tasks and assignments in this class.
• For this discussion topic, please write a few sentences to your fellow classmates about anything interesting you found through CareerQuest.
• Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.

DQ2 Career Planning

In week 1, one of the resources provided for you is a video that introduces you to Career Services. In this discussion topic, you will consider some of the advice that the Career Services unit provides on career planning. This information will help as you pursue the first writing assignments in the class WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments.

To start, please access the Career Services website

You will see the following list of items:

• careerserv2

Select Career Planning, as indicated by the red arrow above. After you select this link, when you scroll down, you will see the following three sections, outlined in blue in the image below:

• Choosing a Major
• Strategies for Career Goals
• Career Insider by Vault
• careerserv3
• Please select at least one of the sections. Peruse the information. Write one paragraph of 125-200 words describing what you found when you examined this information.
• Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.
• DQ3 locating a professional conference in your field
• This discussion topic is designed to help you prepare for writing assignment #1, the report on the professional organization and conference.
• Please access the writing assignment instructions by selecting Assignments in the top menu and selecting WA1 – report on professional organization and conference.
• Read through the instructions. Then locate a conference sponsored by a professional organization in your field.
• In responding to this discussion topic, please post the following:
• The name of the organization
• The url of the conference it sponsors (this can be the most recent conference or the upcoming conference)
• A few sentences about why you picked this conference for writing assignment #1

WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing

Week 2 Discussion (WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments)

DQ1 Resume and cover-letter tips

Please access “Get Tips for Crafting Your Resume and Cover Letter” from Career Se

Peruse the resources and tutorials offered.

In responding to this discussion topic, share three strategies you learned from the resources on either resumes or cover letters or both. Try not to duplicate a strategy given by another classmate. When this discussion is completed, we might have a plethora of tips and strategies that are very useful.

Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.

DQ2 sample resume walk-through

Please access the following url:

https://www.careeronestop.org/ResumeGuide/SampleResumeWalkThrough.aspx

You will see the following interface.

Please click on the various sections of the sample resume walk-through, as pointed to by the red arrows below. Read through the various pieces of advice given.

sccap of resume walkthrough

Please write three pieces of advice you found from the website.

Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.

DQ3 post a rough draft of your resume here

This discussion topic is designed to help you get started on writing assignment #2, the resume and cover letter.

For this discussion topic, please complete the following:

1. Post a resume for yourself that you have on file now. You can post it as an attachment in Word, PDF, or RTF format.

If you do not have a resume on file now, you can use the tips and strategies from this week’s resources to help you create a draft of a resume.

Please note that this is a draft of a resume. You don’t need to post a polished, perfect resume to this discussion topic.

2. Respond to at least two other students on their resumes. Try to give at least one area that could use improvement. You might draw upon the tips given in the Resume Tutorial that was given in Content for week 2 or from the Resume and Cover Letter tips page that was given in Content for week 2. You can also draw from the sample resume walk-through that was linked to in this week’s activities.

Your suggestions for improvement can be a short paragraph. You don’t have to write a whole essay noting to your classmate how to improve the resume.

Please be professional and encouraging as you give advice to your classmates on their resumes.

The resume should be posted by Sunday. Your advice to two other classmates is due next Wednesday.

(Of course, please feel free to post your resume before Sunday and your advice before next Wednesday.)

WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing

Week 3 Discussion (WRTG 293 Introduction to Professional Writing Assignments)

DQ1 Using VMock to get feedback on your resume

This discussion topic is designed to help you write writing assignment #2, the resume and cover letter.

In week 2, you viewed a video tutorial on VMock.

In this discussion topic, please answer the following questions:

1. What category did you chose when you submitted your resume to VMock—Entry-Level/Career Changer, Experienced/Career Advancer, or Federal?

2. Give one piece of advice that VMock provided you for Impact.

3. Give one piece of advice that VMock provided you for Presentation.

4. Give one piece of advice that VMock provided you for Competencies.

5. At the top of the interface, VMock has the following:

You can increase your score by ___ points. See how.

When you clicked see how, what advice did VMock give you?

DQ2 using Resunate to get feedback on your resume

In week 2, you viewed a video tutorial on Resunate.

In this discussion topic, please answer the following questions after you have submitted your resume to Resunate and have worked through the interface to improve your resume.

1. Were you able to increase your Job Focus score? If so, how did you increase it?

2. Give one piece of advice that Resunate suggested to you to improve your resume.

DQ3 post a second draft of your resume for your fellow students to see

In week 2, you submitted a rough draft of your resume to a discussion topic.

In this discussion topic, please do the following:

1. Respond to this discussion topic and attach your updated resume to your response. Your updated resume can be as a Word, PDF, or RTF file.

2. In the actual discussion topic response, please write a short paragraph describing some of the changes you have made to the resume since week 2, when you posted the first, rough draft of the resume.