During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo based on your reading of Writing That Works, Ch 16, “Finding the Best Job for You,” Doing Well in the Interview, Sending Follow-up Correspondence, and Sending a Resignation Letter or Memo; and Monster.com, “Interview Questions: 100 Potential Interview Questions,” http://career-advice.monster.com/job-interview/interview-questions/100-potential-interview-questions/article.aspx. Your focus in the summary memo should be on the reading from Writing That Works, but you can address the Monster.com questions when you discuss interviewing–perhaps identifying questions that you think are important and others that you think are unexpected.

For today’s class, you should have read: Writing That Works, Ch 16, “Finding the Best Job for You,” Writing an Effective Letter of Application and Completing a Job or an Internship Application, and Mashable.com, “Looking for a Job? Ditch the Resume Tips and Open a Marketing Book,” http://mashable.com/2015/01/18/career-marketing-yourself/. Spend the first ten minutes of class briefly summarizing these two readings in a summary memo (remember: MEMO/TO/FROM/DATE/SUBJECT/content). Also, explain in a sentence or two how you can leverage some of the advice in the Mashable article in your job search. Post your memo as a comment to this blog post.

During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary memo as a comment to this post. It should focus on the readings about resumes in Writing That Works and Paul Anderson’s Technical Communication. Use the standard memo format for your response and save your work someplace safe in addition to posting your comment.

During the first ten minutes of class, write an executive summary memo on your reading from the “Determining the Best Job for You” section of Chapter 16 in Writing That Works, and post it as a comment to this blog post. Also, report on your initial experiments with the job search tools on the Project 1 assignment sheet.

Remember, your memo should follow this format:

MEMO

To:

From:

Date:

Subject:

<content>

During the first ten minutes of class, write an executive summary memo of your reading from chapter one of Writing That Works. Remember, type up your summary in a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, and save your work someplace safe. Then, copy-and-paste your memo into a comment to this blog post. Your memo should follow this form:

MEMO

TO:

FROM:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

<Your memo>

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo of your reading of Writing That Works Chapter 14 as a comment added to this blog post. Write your summary in Microsoft Word, Google Drive, WordPad, etc., and then, copy-and-paste your writing into the comment box and leave your comment. To verify that your work has posted, you should navigate to the Dashboard > Comments.

The normal format for a memo should be as follows:

MEMO

TO:

FROM:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

<Your content>

Take 10 minutes at the beginning of class to write a summary memo of the online reading, “Communicating Effectively for Dummies.” What points stood out in your mind? Have you experienced some of these strategies yourself either as the communicator or the audience?

To write your summary memo, I would recommend that you write it in Microsoft Word first. Save your work to your flash drive or in the cloud (if you do this, save your file locally and then email a copy to yourself or upload it to your cloud service provider before leaving class–the computers in this classroom are regularly wiped of student work).

The beginning of your memo should look like this:

TO: Professor Ellis

FROM: <Your first and last name>

DATE: <Today’s date>

SUBJECT: <Your informative subject line for this summary–how about “Summary of xxx”>

<Your summary follows below>

After you type up your summary in Microsoft Word or another text editor on your computer, copy and past your memo into the comment box at the bottom of this page. Post your comment. To confirm that your comment posted, go to the Dashboard > Comments.