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Business Writing

English 3130 040 CRN 83895 Minimester 1 Fall 2008

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Resources

Slides | General | Design | Resumes and Letters | Proposals | Letters of Transmittal

Here are class resources, including sites that are applicable, the PowerPoint slides used in class, and samples. If you find any sites you think should be up here, please let me know!

 

Slides:

 

General:

  • Copyleft materials: Creative Commons offers images, text and other items with flexible, " some rights reserved" copyright. The site has a good search and many of the items can be used with minor restrictions and "without having to pay or ask permission." http://creativecommons.org/
  • Wikimedia Commons: A great resource for media (like pictures) for use in web project. Each media file includes a statement on how the image can be used (if it is copyrighted and so on). Much of the stuff can be used in this class without problems (but do check). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
  • Purdue Owl: A great resources on using and citing sources, includes MLA and APA styles.http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/

 

Design:

  • Color: http://www.colormatters.com/ has lots of information on color issues like gender connotations, cars color, and international connotations
  • Introduction to color: http://www.tec.ufl.edu/~kdtn/effcol.pdf PDF with lots of information about color including international connotations
  • Greeking: http://www.duckisland.com/greekmachine.asp , great to use in place of real text. Gives a feel for the design without distracting text.
  • Tools to design for color blind users: Vischeck offers two color for web site designers concern with making their sites usable to those who are color blind. The Vischeck tool stimulates how web sites look to people with various types of color blindness and the Daltonize tool is a color blind image correction algorithm. http://www.vischeck.com

 

Résumés and Cover Letter Info & Examples (Good, Bad, and Ugly):

Active Verbs/Action verbs:

 

Résumés

Strong student Résumés:

  • Jennifer E. Hayes: GSU English grad looking for a technical communication job. Resume
  • Georgia Blue : Merchandising major looking for an assistant manager position. Resume
  • Tracy Sumit: a student in Family Financial Planning applying for a paraplanner position. Resume

 

Other Résumés:

  • Albert Young: English graduate student looking for a teaching position. Resume
  • Brian Maloney: Civil Engineer looking for a position as a Structural Engineer/Project Manager. Resume
  • Chandler Bing : Master's graduate looking for a job in the educational development field. Resume
  • Charlie S. Charms: Senior Technical Writer looking for Senior Technical Writer position. Resume
  • Cora Caller: tech writer seeking another tech writer position. Resume
  • Daniel T. Kali : tech writer seeking another tech writer position. Resume
  • Fredrick Philips: tech writer seeking another tech writer position. Resume
  • Holly Grail : English graduate student looking for a teaching position. Resume
  • Pseudo Nym : engineering student with three resumes: Resume 1 & Resume 2 for engineering and Resume 3 for an outdoors job. Redesigned Resume 1 with two fonts or with 1 font
  • Linzi Stewart : Hotel Management student looking for a management job. Resume
  • Samantha R. Bradford : Biologist and data manager. Resume
  • Samantha Goose: Software Documentation. Resume
  • Sarah V. Grey : Information Architect in multimedia development. Resume
  • T. Jack Dust : Technical Communicator. Resume
  • Robert X. Scorpio: Electrical Engineer. Resume
  • William K. Marble: tech writer seeking another tech writer position. Resume

     

 

Resumes & Cover Letters:

Strong Student Résumés & Cover Letters::

  • Frankye Jane: Engineering Student with two examples of each. Cover Letter 1 & Resume 1 for a Summer Engineering Tech III . Cover Letter 2 & Resume 2 for a lifeguard position
  • Lucy Ricardo: Technical Communication/English Student with two examples of each. Cover Letter 1 & Resume 1 for a medical transcriptionist. Cover Letter 2 & Resume 2 for an editorial assistant
  • Todd Smalt : Civil engineering student. Cover Letter & Resume for intern in civil engineering
  • Madison Hall: student studying communication disorders. Cover Letter & Resume for a Speech-Language Pathologist position.
  • Mercedes Smith: International Economics student. Cover Letter 1 for a position in the IFC Summer Internship Program and Cover Letter 2 for an internship with the Federal Reserve Board Division of Research and Statistics. Resume for both
  • Hope Lynn: student in Family Consumer Science Education applying for a position as part-time instructor of Food and Nutrition at South Plains College. Resume & Cover Letter
  • Sarah L. May: a student in Telecommunications applying for a radio Program Director position. Resume & Cover Letter (good matching letter and resume)
  • Kyle Ocean : a student in Advertising applying for a job with a job with Atlantic Advertising Group, Inc. Resume & Cover Letter

 

Other Résumés & Cover Letters:

 

Curriculum Vita's: (Academic resumes)

  • Jane E. Smith: Psychology Ph.D. CV
  • Jennifer L. Bowie: Technical Communication& Rhetoric Ph.D. CV

 

 

 

Proposals

Here are some sample proposals. But do note that these are for different projects and are set up a bit differently.

Proposals from other Busienss Writing Classes:

 

Proposals from other clases:

 

 

Letters of Transmittal:

 

 

 
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