During today’s class, write a letter addressed to Professor Ellis (using his school address found on the City Tech English Department website–Google it). The letter should follow this format (you may look back at your letter from last week for further guidance):

Your address (okay to make it up)
Today’s Date

Dr. Jason Ellis
His Address

Dear Dr. Ellis,

One sentence greeting (e.g., How are you doing today?)

Paragraph of 6-10 sentences that makes the argument that I should not read the article that you read for today’s class. Open with your thesis and include reasons supporting your thesis. Weave summary into these reasons. Include the author’s name, article title, magazine title, and issue or date information. Remember to italicize the magazine title and put the article title in quotes.

One offer sentence in closing (e.g., If you would like to discuss the article, please let me know.)

Sincerely,

4 lines

Your Name

Copy-and-paste your letter into a comment made to this blog post.

To begin Project 2 (which is described on the Syllabus page linked above), I would like you to prepare a brief memo and turn it as a comment made to this blog post by the end of class.

Your memo should begin with a memo header, have a one sentence description of its purpose in your own words, and five bullet points of information. The information that you will put into the bullet points includes: a term, word, acronym, phrase, or topic related to your future career that you would like to make the focus of your research project. After the topic, write at least a sentence explaining why you want to research this particular topic. Be specific and descriptive. Each bullet point is a different, possible topic for your research paper for a total of five possible topics for your research essay. You may write more than a sentence per bullet point.

We will discuss these during class next week, so be prepared to read these to the class and think about which topic among the five you write about you want to research the most.

Some other things to consider: Is the topic too broad, meaning that there is too much information to research for your paper? Is the topic too narrow, meaning that there is not enough information to research for your paper?

During today’s class, write a letter addressed to Professor Ellis (using his school address found on the City Tech English Department website–Google it). The letter should follow this format:

Your address (okay to make it up)
Today’s Date

Dr. Jason Ellis
His Address

Dear Dr. Ellis,

One sentence greeting (e.g., How are you doing today?)

Paragraph of 6-10 sentences that makes the argument that I should read the article that you read for today’s class. Open with your thesis and include reasons supporting your thesis. Weave summary into these reasons. Include the author’s name, article title, magazine title, and issue or date information. Remember to italicize the magazine title and put the article title in quotes.

One offer sentence in closing (e.g., If you would like to discuss the article, please let me know.)

Sincerely,

4 lines

Your Name

Copy-and-paste your letter into a comment made to this blog post.

A reminder to students enrolled in the Professional and Technical Writing Program in our class: Stop by my office hours on Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm, Thursday 3:00-4:00pm, or by appointment for academic advisement before registering for Fall 2017 classes. My office is Namm 520. I have checklists that we can go over together. Be sure to bring a printed copy of your most recent unofficial transcript available through CUNYfirst.

I have received questions from some students about using Google Drive and Google Docs. The tutorials included below provide recent tutorials on these writing technologies that we use in class.

If you need help with OpenLab, there are many instructional documents located on the OpenLab Help page here.

To submit your Project 1 files to Professor Ellis for grading, follow these directions before arriving to class next week.

You are assembling a portfolio of professional documents for Project 1. Use the assignment sheet and the following as a checklist for your portfolio’s documents:

• Career Memo
• Program of Study Memo
• Job Ad Research Memo
• Letter of Application
• Skills-based Resume
• Experience-based Resume

To submit your files, follow these steps:

1. Go to Google Drive
2. Click New > Folder
3. Name your new folder “ENG1133 D202, Project 1, Job Application Portfolio”
4. Look over the documents that you want to include in your portfolio and make sure that they are in their final form and named appropriately.
5. Move the final versions of your Google Docs in Google Drive into this folder that you just created. To do this, click/hold and drag as you would with files on Windows or Macintosh.
6. Right click on your “ENG1133 D202, Project 1, Job Application Portfolio” folder > Get Shareable Link > highlight and copy the link shown here
7. Go to your student email
8. Create a new message to jellis at citytech.cuny.edu
9. Give your email the subject “ENG1133 D202, Project 1, Job Application Portfolio”
10. Write a professional email to me and paste the link that you copied (e.g., Dear Professor Ellis, You may view my Project 1 Portfolio here: link. Sincerely, Your name
11. I will reply to your email to confirm receipt.

During today’s class, you will each have an opportunity to peer review one skills-based resume, one experience-based resume, and one job application letter. It is your responsibility to find others in class with these documents that you can exchange for peer review. Do restrict yourselves to two-person exchanges. You might need to exchange documents between three people so that there is no odd person out.

For each document that you review, you will write a brief memo. This memo will be emailed to the author of the document that you are reviewing AND you will copy-and-paste it into a comment made to this blog post. At the end of class, you should have emailed three memos and made three comments to this blog post.

When you receive a classmate’s document printout, initial it at the top of the page.

Read the author’s document carefully and have the example documents available on OpenLab open on your screen for reference.

Write a memo addressed to the author of the document that you are reviewing. Your memo should contain these things: memo information block, a one sentence introduction (you are providing feedback on x document by y person), and between 5-10 bullet points written in complete sentences/paragraphs that provide suggestions, comments, questions, directions, and guidance for improving the document that you are reading. Remember: No document is perfect and can always be improved upon. Let Simon Cowell be your spiritual guide in this respect.

Again, remember to email each memo to the author of the document reviewed, and copy-and-paste your memo into a comment made to this blog post. Do not put all of your memos into the same comment. Instead, make a separate comment for each memo that you write.

Check out these two examples of the job application letter here: application-letter-examples.

Remember to bring one printed copy of your skills-based resume, experience-based resume, and job application letter to our class next week.

Open your canned answers document on Google Drive. Copy-and-paste everything except for your personal information at the top of the document (e.g., name, address, phone number, email address) into a comment made to this blog post. After you have had a chance to turn in this work, we will begin building your two resumes with the information that you have collected together in your canned answers.

During the second half of class, copy-and-paste your Job Ad and Company Research Memo into a comment made to this blog post. Afterwards, we will begin working on your Project 1 resumes with the information that you brought to class today.

Useful examples of resumes that we will refer to during class:

• resume-skills
• resume-experiential-01
• resume-experiential-02
• Resumes_and_Cover_Letters

Categories and verbs for resume skills:

• Skill Headings Worksheet