I. TITLE & NUMBER OF THE COURSE: ENGL 2311 Technical Report Writing
II. TITLE OF THE ASSIGNMENT: Successful Applications
III. GENERAL EDUCATION CORE OBJECTIVES TO BE ASSESSED WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Recognize, analyze, and accommodate diverse audiences.
2. Produce documents appropriate to audience, purpose, and genre.
3. Analyze the ethical responsibilities involved in technical communication.
4. Locate, evaluate, and incorporate pertinent information.
5. Develop verbal, visual, and multimedia materials as necessary, in individual and/or collaborative projects, as appropriate.
6. Edit for appropriate style, including attention to word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling.
7. Design and test documents for easy reading and navigation.
GENERAL EDUCATION OUTCOMES:
I. CRITICAL THINKING: Students will develop habits of mind, allowing them to appreciate the processes by which scholars in various disciplines organize and evaluate data and use the methodologies of each discipline to understand the human experience.
II. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Students will communicate ideas, express feelings and support conclusions effectively in written, oral and visual formats.
III. TEAMWORK: Students will consider different points of view and work interdependently to achieve a shared purpose or goal.
IV. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: Students will develop habits of intellectual exploration, personal responsibility, and physical well-being.
IV. ASSIGNMENT AS GIVEN TO STUDENTS
· For this project, you will be developing an application packet (including a letter and resume) responding to a specific job, ad, scholarship, or internship. In a real world scenario, you will combine research and collaboration to apply your skills to your career interests, and this assignment will mirror a real world application.
· You will research an employment or educational opportunity and the career associated with it. Based on your research, you will then create a letter and resume that respond to a specific job or internship/scholarship opportunity. (SLO: B,D,E,F,G; GEO: A,B,D)
· Then, working in teams of 3 that reflect similar fields of interest, you will do a professional peer review of each team member’s letter/resume/ad and use a designated rubric that emphasizes audience appeal, tone, detail and content, format and page design, as well as grammar and mechanics. (SLO: A,B,D,E,F,G; GEO: B,C,D)
· You will submit individual specific recommendations for/with your peer review. (SLO: A,B,C,E,F,G; GEO: A,B,C,D).
· You will then discuss your team recommendations with reviewers and then submit a final, revised letter/resume for a grade. (SLO: A,B,C,D,E,F,G; GEO: A,B,C,D)
V. DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT FOR INSTRUCTORS
· This assignment should be assigned during the second half of the semester (To assure an approximate equality in the amount of instruction received).
· The project develops an application packet including a letter and resume responding to a specific job, ad, scholarship or internship. In a real world scenario, students combine research and collaboration to apply their skills to their career interests.
· Students will research an employment or educational opportunity and the career associated with it. Based on their research, each student will create a letter and resume that respond to a specific job or internship/scholarship opportunity. (SLO: B,D,E,F,G; GEO: A,B,D)
· Working in teams of 3 that reflect similar fields of interest, students will do a professional peer review of each team member’s letter/resume/ad and use a designated rubric that emphasizes audience appeal, tone, detail and content, format and page design, as well as grammar and mechanics. (SLO: A,B,D,E,F,G; GEO: B,C,D)
· Students submit individual specific recommendations for/with their reviews. (SLO: A,B,C,E,F,G; GEO: A,B,C,D).
· Each student discusses team recommendations with reviewers and submits a final, revised letter/resume for a grade. (SLO: A,B,C,D,E,F,G; GEO: A,B,C,D)