18 Jan Imagine that you are Dr. Richard

WRTG293 Introduction to Professional Writing

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 your experience in practicing an interview with Quinncia

In week 3, you viewed a video tutorial on Quinncia.

For this discussion topic, follow the steps in the video tutorial to upload your resume and then take a practice interview.

Then answer the following questions:

1. When you uploaded your resume, did you receive any additional feedback from Quinncia that you had not received by using our previous tools?

2. List three pieces of advice that Quinncia gave you during this practice interview. As you can see from the tutorial, Quinncia gives advice after you answer each question. You can choose three pieces of advice that you received after some specific questions if you would like.

DQ2 examining a set of poorly written instructions

Before you start, you will want to read the following. These readings are provided for you in Content for week 4.

Scenario: Anderson College (Part I)

Jay Williams’ Ineffective Instructions

D.A. Jameson, “Management consulting and teaching: Lessons learned teaching professionals to control tone in writing

Also in week 4 of Content, please become familar with the content and advice at these websites:

David McMurrey, “Instructions: Tell Them How to Do It!”

Wikibooks — Writing Instructions

Instructions: How to Write Guides for Busy, Grouchy People — Jerz’s Literacy Weblog

Then answer the following question in responding to this discussion topic:

As you can see from the scenario, a former student worker at Anderson College wrote a set of instructions for Anderwson college that are not well written and are not professional enough to distribute to the faculty members and students of the college.

As you peruse the McMurrey, Wikibooks, and Jerz resources on how to write instructions., and as you examine the set of poorly written instructions, please list at least three problems with the instructions, using the these three resources as a guide. Your response can be a few sentences.

DQ3 an email message to the student worker

Before you start, you will want to read the following. These readings are provided for you in Content for week 4.

Scenario: Anderson College (Part I)

Jay Williams’ Ineffective Instructions

D.A. Jameson, “Management consulting and teaching: Lessons learned teaching professionals to control tone in writing

video — “Using a Holistic Approach to Writing Business Emails”

After reading the scenario, the set of instructions written by Jay Williams, and the Jameson article, please complete the following:

Imagine that you are Dr. Richard Johnson, Dean of the Undergraduate School at Anderson College. You will write an email message to Jay Williams, the student worker, informing him that his instructions are not suitable to be distributed to the students and faculty at Anderson College.

Keep in mind the Jameson article. You want to maintain proper tone and professionalism. While the instructions that Jay wrote are not professional and would be embarrassing to send to the students and faculty members, you do not want to seem unprofessional in your message to Jay. In addition, he is a student worker. You don’t want to overly criticize him in your message.

In responding to this discussion topic, write the following:

the subject line of the email message you write

the body of the email message.