Last Blog: Summer B

For your last blog, I would like you to draft a one-paragraph proposal for the formal analytical report. Try to decide in this paragraph whether or not you want to do a research paper or a newsletter.  When you have your idea, think how the four contexts of use (ethical, physical, economic, and political) might influence your paper's topic. Name your document's purpose---inform, persuade, report, resolve, etc.---, and make a plan of action, detailing how will you begin and complete this assignment.  To receive full credit, I must see the following items mentioned in your blog:
(1)You have decided to do a research paper or a newsletter.
(2)Pick two of the contexts of use and apply their relevancy to your topic.
(3)Name your document's purpose.
(4)With at least three sentences, detail your plan of action for completing this assignment.
Good luck! It's been fun reading your blogs, and I look forward to reading this one.

Blog III and IV (Summer B)

This blog posting is worth double points.  I strongly suggest you take the time to do it well.  For this posting, you must look to the future.  You have completed your education, and now you must find a job of some kind.  To get full points, you must answer the following questions: (1) What’s your dream job is and how you plan to apply (are you going to consult the paper, jobsearch.com, or some other source?); (2) What are your salary expectations? (3) How you plan to dress for the interview?  (4) Suppose the interviewer asks you what your greatest weakness is.  What would be your response to that question? You must write at least two paragraphs to receive full credit for this assignment.

Summer B: Blog II

(2)Suppose you had to draft a technical document for a company.   Before doing so, you have to take your audience into consideration.  Using Chapter 3 to guide you, come up with a document that you would like to write for a certain company.  To get full credit for this posting you must do the following: (1)Create your own fictitious company;  (2) define the purpose of the company and their document; (3) name the genre of your document;  (4) briefly discuss  the physical, economic, and political contexts of your document.

Summer B: Blog B

(1)For this first blog posting, I would like you to pretend that you an angry email from a colleague of yours.  The email contains abusive language and fabricated accusations that you neglected company policies.  For full credit, you must answer the following questions:  (1) What is your first course of action? Are you immediately going to respond, or are you going to wait to craft your response? (2) Will you run to a higher authority, a boss or a supervisor, to help you with your email, or will you handle it alone? (3) Write a brief, three-to-four sentence message to your accuser.  Make sure you consider points about Email Netiquette as found in the Chapter 13.

Blog V: Formal Analytical Report Proposal

For your last blog, I would like you to draft a one-paragraph proposal for the formal analytical report. Try to decide in this paragraph whether or not you want to do a research paper or a newsletter.  When you have your idea, think how the four contexts of use (ethical, physical, economic, and political) might influence your paper's topic. Name your document's purpose---inform, persuade, report, resolve, etc.---, and make a plan of action, detailing how will you begin and complete this assignment.  To receive full credit, I must see the following items mentioned in your blog:
(1)You have decided to do a research paper or a newsletter.
(2)Pick two of the contexts of use and apply their relevancy to your topic.
(3)Name your document's purpose.
(4)With at least three sentences, detail your plan of action for completing this assignment.
Good luck! It's been fun reading your blogs, and I look forward to reading this one.

Blog III and IV (Summer A)

You’ve paid your dues, climbed the proverbial ladder, clawed your way through the human pile of talentless hacks, and now you’ve landed your dream job.  For the first part of this blog, you must write about your daily routine at your dream job.   Basically, answer these questions: (1) describe your job, (2) how much you are getting paid (realistically), and (3) your plan for retirement.  Once you have answered those three questions, think about the ethical considerations o f your job.  And then write about a real or fictional situation that involves a communication-related ethical dilemma.  As you describe the situation, try to bring personal, social, and, if applicable, conservation ethics into the conflict. At the end of the situation, leave your readers with a difficult question to answer.