July 8th: More on Résumés

Plan for the Day

• Syllabus Quiz!!! (on Moodle)
• Show Assignments Page
• Finish résumé stuff
• Chapters 1 and 2 in Tebeaux & Dragga
• Preview Prose Revisions
• My First Document
• Webpage Catch up/Work on Résumés and Cover Letters

Technology Journal

Don't forget about the "Technology Journal." I have five prompts for you to write about this term. This week's prompt is up (as are all the others), so please take a look.

Webpage Stuff for the Semester

Remember, I want you to maintain your webpages for the rest of the semester. This, at minimum, means updating your webpage every week. Each week you ought to add something or change something on your webpage. The goal for this exercise is to keep you engaged with a (possibly) new, unfamiliar technology we can refer to as a class.

In order to "encourage" updating, I'm asking that you create a separate webpage that will list your weekly changes. I'm not asking for major changes--don't think you need to have a search engine or active server page to fulfill this requirement. Simply adding links, changing colors, creating a journal pages, etc. is enough to fulfill updating.

First, you should create a new page for your updates. I know, let's call in 'update.html.' Of course, you'll have to have it linked to your homepage (index.html)...any questions?

After today, I'm not going to spend much time on webpage creation. I'll always be available to help you during office hours, but we won't focus on webpage creation as a class after today.

Assessing Technologies

Let's break for a moment and take out all our technologies. I'm curious to see what "we" carry around with us daily.

Lessons on Plain Language Coming Up

Next class we'll be talking about more sentence-level, prose concerns. The goal of the lessons will be on understanding what is meant by "efficient prose" and "plain language." In order to get us going, please have the Revising Prose document read. Originally, I was going to put this on Moodle, but it's just as easy to do it here.

Keeping Up

Read Chapters 4 and 7 in Tebeaux & Dragga for tomorrow.

Your Cover Letters and Résumés, which are portfolio assignments, are due tomorrow (7/9).