English 420Y - Business Writing Online

The position I am looking at for this project is a Financial Representative with Fidelity. I would have to do things such as talking to clients and prospective clients about their financial future and help with any financial questions they have. Some examples would be helping them select mutual funds offered by Fidelity, estate planning for them and their loved ones and also helping them plan for their financial future.

1. I worked the past 3 summers (June-July, 2004, 2005, 2006) at a tennis camp at Warren Township High School in Gurnee, IL. My main responsibilities were helping the kids learn the fundamentals of the game and strategy of tennis. I also helped create the practice plans for the day and made sure none of the kids got out of hand or got hurt. 2. A couple of summers ago I volunteered one day at the Special Olympics Illinois Northeastern area.

After reading through the table of contents and chapter 12 and other parts of the book I think that there are plenty of things I will learn through this class. I expect the substance of this course to be very informative, especially about writing new types of documents I've never heard of before. Just in reading through chapter 12 I've realized there are things such as a white paper and recommendation reports. I've never even heard of either of these but there is a good chance I will have to write some of them in career. I expect to learn a lot more about documents I've heard of as well.