This is a position for a campus consultant for Sports Illustrated. The responsibilities of this position are to promote Sports Illustrated on campus and to communicate information back to the different departments at Sports Illustrated. The main duties are to work with a team to come up with a marketing strategy for the magazine, to provide information about the different media and groups, to provide feedback on student's response to the magazine, help with Sports Illustrated events, participate in panel discussions, and distribute information and material to other students.
While scanning and reading the required material, I find this book to be very useful in general and not only in the business world. Much of the material in the book, I have already gone over in other english courses, but this particular book goes into much more detail. I believe the substance of this course will be based around the business writing world. Much of the material we cover will help us to write better as whole.
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Through reading the textbook, I expect the substance of this course will be about analyzing and writing various documents needed in business worlds such as resume, cover letter, memo, case analysis, and white paper. In more detail, I would expect to practice defining a clear purpose of a document and make the audience understand more clearly and quickly by incorporating various technological resources and thorough analysis.
Through the duration of this course I think we will learn how to write business documents like resumes, cover letters, memo's and case analysis. The class is designed to help incorporate the rhetoric situation into our writing.
As mentioned on page 219 there are different kinds of writing technologies which yield different responses from readers. We thus need to learn how to revise our writings based on the technologies we use. Since this class is online I think we will have a great opportunity to use technology to our advantage with the help of this class.
Let me begin my reading response blog by saying: I expect this course to include all of the basics a college-level professional writing course would. I assume that we will write a resume and cover letter, and learn the basic computer skills necessary to format these documents to standard, as pointed out on pages 229-231 of The Thomson Handbook.
I expect the substance of this course to be based on how to properly write different documents for job search and for documents that will be used in the workplace. I expect a large portion of this class will be devoted to job search and the professional writing that goes along with that. Much of the text that was assigned from The Thompson Handbook discusses these materials. The substance of this course will also introduce us to writing documents that we will face in the business world and workplace and how we can use the technological resources that are available.
Now that you've written a resume, the next step is to flesh out that information in a cover letter. One of the biggest mistakes people make with the cover letter is just repeating information that can be found on the resume. What's the point of that?