English 420Y - Business Writing Online

Hello, I'm Ryan Weber, the other instructor for this course. I am a Ph.D. student studying Rhetoric and Composition with an emphasis on Professional Writing. Some of my research interests are the ways that language influences thought and the way that corporations and other institutions create and maintain a public persona (ethos).

This is my second time teaching an online class, and I really enjoy teaching professional writing online because it forces us to put into practice the very principles of the course. Because we can only use language and images to communicate, we are in the same situation as most professional writers on the job.

When I'm not teaching, I enjoy traveling and the outdoors. I hope to make it up to Warren Dunes and down to Turkey Run this summer. I highly recommend both spots.

Hello, my name is Rachel Roberts. I am from Evansville, Indiana (southern tip near Kentucky). I will be a senior this year at Purdue University, but am currently on the five year plan which means I have two more years. I am studying Mathematics Education and Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences with an emphasis on Air Quality Management.

Currently, I am involved with an internship with Dow AgroSciences as apart of their Research and Development Department working on a research farm. As far as my career goals aspire that is a very good question. I will graduate with a teaching degree and training to be a environmental scientist. To what I will aspire I do not know.

I am taking this course because it is a requirement for my majors; however, I strive to attain technical/business writing skills that will make me more marketable within the professional establishment. One personal thing about myself is that I love soccer and working with children.

Hello! My name is Megan Seeman! I'm from Shelbyville, Indiana which is a small town southeast of Indianapolis. I will be a junior in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. I'm studying Management and my minors are Marketing, OBHR, and Spanish Language and Literature. I'm not certain what I want to do after I graduate but I still have three years to figure that out! I would love to move to a different state and I hope to travel with my future career and use my Spanish skills.

From this course, I hope to obtain the knowledge necessary to write professionally. I also hope to gain experience writing resumes and professional e-mails to future employers as well as professors at Purdue. I hope this class will help me in obtaining a future career as well as internships.

I'm working at the pharmacy at Major Hospital this summer. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, shopping, and reading for fun, not school! I'm enjoying my summer but I'm ready to return to Purdue to see all my friends again!

My name is Stephen Sandquist. I am from Valparaiso, IN which is in northwest Indiana. I am currently a senior in Building Construction Management in the College of Technology. I am specializing in healthcare construction and will possibly explore a specialization in demolition construction or residential construction. I plan on graduating in May of 2008.

After graduation I plan on becoming a project engineer for a construction company in the midwest working on hospitals and medical buildings. I want to be able to become a project manager within five years of graduation working in Chicago.

Through this class I would like to learn how to effectively communicate with my collegues through written messages. It will help me to land my first job and help me to be successful in my career. I have seen how important this class can be as my current internship deals with communicating with subcontractors and other employees through emails and written mail, too.

I like to spend the majority of my free time playing disc golf with my friends and hanging out at the dunes on Lake Michigan.

Hello, my name is Suzanne Quasny. I am from Munster, Indiana, which is in northwest Indiana, about 30 minutes from Chicago. I have just completed my third year at Purdue, and I will be starting my senior year this fall. In December of this year, I will be graduating a semester early.

Upon graduating, I hope to work in Chicago. I am interested in going into sales and retail, but I am not sure exactly what company I want to work for. I know that everything will fall into place once I start my job search.

From this course, I hope to improve my writing skills which will in turn help with my job search in a few months. As for my hobbies, I enjoy running, movies, and seeing all my friends.

Hi, my name is Alex Urban. I live in Geneva, IL, which is about 40-45 miles west of Chicago. I am now a junior majoring in Neurobiology and Physiology (Pre-Med). I also am minoring in Management to have an understanding of the business side of medicine. The upcoming year will be important for me because I will be taking the MCAT in the spring and begin applying to medical schools. Hopefully I can get in!

I feel that I already have pretty good writing skills. I hope that this course will help me put them to good use in the world today. It sounded like one of our first assignments will be to prepare resumes and job applications, which I think is something I am looking for from this class.

I am working as a camp counselor this summer, which I think should be a lot of fun. Also, my favorite sport is baseball.

Hello, my name is Bryce Sexton and I am from Lafayette, Indiana. I am a senior majoring in OLS and will be graduating this December. I am excited to graduate and to be looking for a job this summer and fall. I hope to find a job in agriculture, but if not I would like to end up in manufacturing. Also this year, my fiance and I are in the process of planning our wedding that will take place next summer. Besides finishing up school, working and helping to plan our wedding, I enjoy spending time with my fiance and our dog max. Also when I get a free hour or two, I like to go flying to relax. Good luck to everyone this semester.

Hello everyone!

My name is Melissa Wood and I am from Worth, IL. Worth is a small suburb south of Chicago that is literally a mile long from one end to the other. I am living at home with my parents for the summer but plan to move to the city upon graduation.

I am currently a senior at Purdue, and will be graduating in December. I am pursuing a Selling and Sales Management major and a Psychology minor.

This summer I am interning in the Security Technologies division at Ingersoll Rand. When I graduate I will most likely join the Advanced Developement Program there, and from there go into HR or Marketing. In the long run, I would like to open my own business. I love houses and real-estate, and so I eventually want to crack into that market.

From this course I would really like to further develop my professional writing skills. I am on my second intense internship, and I have experienced first-hand how important professional writing skills are- especially in corporate America.

In the little free time I have this summer I enjoy spending time with my family and spoiling my Yorkie. I am a health nut and at times a slave to the gym. One of my favorite things to do is travel, and my internship this summer is perfect because I am traveling at least two days a week. In addition, I am a crazed Cubs fan, and I attend as many games as I possibly can.

Hi, my name is Alayna Willis. I am from Lafayette, Indiana. Currently I am in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida interning for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In the fall I will be a senior majoring in Youth, Adult, and Family Services with a specialization in Child Life. I hope to graduate in May of 2008.

After graduation I hope to start work in either a non-profit or as a Child-Life Specialist. I am torn between the two right now seeing as I am an intern at Make-A-Wish, and I love what I do there. While working I hope to go back to school and either get my masters in social work or a nursing degree.

While taking this course, I hope to become better at professional writing. I hope to become knowledgebale about all the aspects with the professional world, what is appropriate and what is not. I not only hope to become a better professional writer, but a better writer overall.

In my spare time I like to lay out by the pool, working with children, shopping, being with friends, and reading enjoyable material. I also enjoy watching football and playing volleyball and softball.
Alayna Willis

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My names Archit. I am from India, which makes me an international student. I am majoring in accounting at the Krannert School of Management. I am presently a sophomore.
I aspire to be working in a good accounting firm, say Earnst & Young. well thats my dream job but for the starters anything would do, so that i build up some sort of experience.
I m into the business school which makes it very important to learn every trick of this trade, to begin with, writing is an eternal part of business and also its ability is proportional to how well one can express.
Activities!!! i don know about them, I am a very lazy person. I would rather sit in my room and do all the work. I like playing squash, racquet n ball and sometimes soccer when the weathers nice.

Hello everyone,
My name is Meepa Kim. I am from Korea and a senior majoring statistics. Although it's been 4 years since I've come to U.S.A., my english might still look clumsy. So I hopt that I can improve my rhetorical writing skill with help of this course.

My career goal is to work at a bank, especially a firm which has a foreign country base so that I can keep using english even in Korea. I am particularly interested in risk management among various positions. However, since with only bachelor degree I can't succeed as a risk manager, I plan to go to graduate school after a few years of working experience.

As already mentioned above, I would like to improve my professional writing skill in this class.

When I am bored or stressed out too much, I travel within U.S.A. During my academic years, I have traveled quite many places within the United states, and it always helped me to refresh my tired mind and everyday life.

Hello! My name is Pratyush Kamdar. I am from India which is south east of Asia. I am an international student and I am home for the summer. So during this course, I will be communicating from Mumbai, the city where I am from. I absolutely love this place but I also treasure the education I am obtaining from the United States. I am currently a sophomore transforming into a junior this fall. My concentration is Bio-Chemistry from the School of Science at Purdue University with a minor in Economics. I plan to graduate in May 2009 and then go on to Graduate school for Masters in Bio Technology. I hope to join a multinational pharmaceutical company like Pfizer or Eli Lilly after finishing my masters. A MBA degree is also in my mind, but I shall decide about that later.

From this course I hope to develop professional communication and writing skills. I took this course since it completes my requirement of an English course as well as it will help me during my job and graduate school applications. A professional job would seem simpler with the help of this course. Communication in the corporate world is a different task in it itself and this course would assist me in it.

I enjoy playing soccer and I play here regularly with my friends. I take pleasure in riding my bike in this wonderful weather here in Mumbai. I love hanging out with my family and friends since I see them only twice a year. I also love traveling and exploring new places.

Hi, my name is Rachel Bennett. I'm from Evansville, Indiana, which is located in the southwestern tip of Indiana. It is located right on the Ohio river, making it just a short drive across the bridge to Kentucky. I am going into my third year at Purdue and studying Management. I'm not sure exactly what I want to do when I graduate, but I am exploring my options.

From this course, I would like to improve my communication skills through writing. I expect the assignments to be very useful and relevant.

My favorite things to do include shopping, swimming, and hanging out with friends. I've recently acquired a new interest in making jewelry. But unfortunately, Evansville doesn't have any bead shops like Von's, so my hobby has been put on hold!

Hello Everyone, My name is Keeli Mayes. I am from Terre Haute, Indiana and my major is Health Science. I am a Senior and I plan on graduating in December. My future goal is to be accepted into graduate school or pharmacy school. I would like to enhance my writing skills using this course, so that I may be able to communicate in the business world effectively. Recently I have began exercising a lot more, and playing my favorite sport basketball more often too.

Hello, my name is Patrick Studtman. I am from Michigan City, Indiana, which is a little over an hour and a half directly north of Purdue. Michigan City is one of the few places in Indiana which has a Lake Michigan Beach.

I am a senior in Interdisciplinary Science in Chemistry. I will be graduating from Purdue in December of 2008. Once I graduate, I hope to get accepted into a medical school to become either a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO). If I do not get accepted right out of college I may go on to get my Masters in Public Health (MPH).

I hope to improve my professional writing skills through this course. I would really like to gain experience and criticism of my writing style to improve my ability.

I am working two jobs this summer: I am the chief lifeguard on Lake Michigan and I work in the emergency room at Michigan City’s Hospital. I enjoy swimming, running, and lifting weights when I am not working. Other than working for most of the summer, I am going to visit my brother which just graduated from Purdue and moved to California.

**I had this turned in before the 13th, but I just changed a word this morning when I was reading it.

Hey everyone!

My name is Elizabeth but everyone calls me Libby. I am from LaPorte, IN which is in Northwest IN and is about 1.5hrs from West Lafayette. I am currently a Senior at Purdue and will graduate this August after completing my last two english classes which are both online.

I am currently still living in West Lafayette but will be moving at the end of July closer to Frankfort, IN. I am currently working two jobs; Vet Technician at Janssen Veterinary Clinic and Horse Care Coordinator for Purdue's CHAPS program. My long term goal/career will be to manage an equine therapeutic riding center and work with people with disabilities. I have very little spare time with one full time job and a part time job but when I get the time I love to take my dog for walks or to the basketball courts. I promise you all she is the next Air Bud!

I took this class to help strengthen my communication skills through emails. I am not very handy with the computer and am the slowest typer ever! This is my first online course I have ever taken and I am excited!

Hello, my name is Gwenda Hughes and even though my name may not sound like it, I am from Colombia, South America. I was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia (Shakira’s home Town), but my mom’s side of the family comes from Spain and my Dad is Welsh. This is my last class at Purdue before my graduation on August 4. After this class, I will complete my double major in Economics and Accounting. Following graduation I will travel to Europe for a couple of weeks and then move to Houston to start working for Chevron Texaco as a Business Analyst.
As far as this course I am hoping to improve my writing skills in English. Being English my second language I always have a hard time to express my ideas in writing. Thus, with this course I hope to improve my skills especially in the professional environment. This Thursday I will be traveling to Colombia to visit my family and friends, but also to have surgery! As for hobbies I love to be out in the in the sun by the pool, and relaxing. I also enjoy spending time with my family and friends.

Hi everyone! My name is Melissa Michels and I am from Orland Park, IL. I am a senior in Management and Entrepreneurship. In May of 2008, I will graduate and I plan to continue my education and earn an MBA. My career aspiration is to enter into the field of healthcare administration. With the assistance of this course, I desire to become a more proficient and confident writer. I also would like to write more professionally in a business atmosphere. When I am not stuck in my books, I am participating in intramurals for my sorority, volunteering at the Veteran's Home, and working as a rescue squad member for athletic events. I enjoy music, traveling, the outdoors and sports such as, soccer, swimming, basketball and tennis.

Hi, I am Samana Tejani and I am from Pune, India. I am a Food Science major and will be a senior this year. I decided to do food science because my father owns a food processing industry in India and I hope to take over the company in the near future.
I hope that by the end of this course I will be able to communicate well with other people in the corporate world. If I take over the company, I will be required to communicate with top management professional’s from different organizations, thus taking this class for me is extremely important.
Evryone needs some time to unwind, during thsi time my favorite thing to do in the world is dance. I mostly dance on bollywood music but I love hip-hop as well.

My name is Nick Lievense. I am from South Bend, Indiana which is two hours north of West Lafayette. I transferred from IU Bloomington/South Bend because IU does not offer my major. I am majoring in Turf Science and I currently work for Purdue, taking care of all the universities' athletic fields. If everything goes as planned I will graduate in the spring of 2009.
My main career goal is to be the head groundskeeper at a major league ballpark. I really don't have a personal preference towards a particular team, but if I had a choice it would be on the north side of Chicago (Go Cubbies!). I have worked at numerous golf courses, including Purdue's, all of IU's athletic facilities, and the Arizona Diamondbacks minor league affiliate.
I took this course initially to full fill my English requirement, but I would also like to learn to communicate better via email and in a more professional manner.
I enjoy shooting pool with my girlfriend and playing online poker

First off I want to apologize for all the posts that will be coming from me in the next few days. An error in the distance learning office means I am just starting the course now.

My name is Matt Koppelman and I am a senior in Communications: Public Relations and Rhetorical Analysis (Advertising and PR specialty) as well as an English minor. I just switched majors, from pre-med to communications towards the end of sophomore year, so the jury is still out whether or not I will be able to graduate on time. I am from Glendale Heights, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago.

After graduation I plan on working for a public relations firm and eventually get my MBA since Purdue does not offer its non-management students much in the way of marketing classes. Ultimately I would like to head an entertainment branch for a PR firm.

In taking this class I hope to fine tune the writing skills I have been practicing within my collegiate career. Since I'm coming to a point in my life where a "real" job is fast becoming a reality, the amount of importance attached to what I can show a prospective employer in the short amount of time that an interview takes up needs to be shaped from raw to concise. It's not enough to SAY that you are an effective communicator in the business world, but rather imperative that you be able to PROVE it.

I am a HUGE Chicago fan, which means if it has a big "C" in front of the team name, then I probably am a fan. I'm a Sox AND a Cubs fan, but if pushed I'd have to go with the Cubs. My biggest interest, however, lies in football. I live and die by the Bears record and during football season you can usually tell how the Bears did on Sunday by my mood the following Monday. Other than that I am, or more specifically WAS an avid gym rat, but an accident right before dead week has left me in a wheelchair (don't worry, I hope to be walking by the time classes begin in August).