18 Jan This discussion topic is designed

WRTG293 Introduction to Professional Writing

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 joining Career Quest at UMUC

Please access the Career Services website at the following url:

https://www.umuc.edu/current-students/career-services/

Then access the CareerQuest website by selecting the option indicated at the right:

careerquest

Then select CareerQuest for Students, as indicated by the red arrow below:

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Proceed through the interface to join the CareerQuest community as a student and complete your profile.

Explore the various options in CareerQuest, including recently posted jobs and other resources and online tools. Joining the CareerQuest community will help you complete various upcoming tasks and assignments in this class.

For this discussion topic, please write a few sentences to your fellow classmates about anything interesting you found through CareerQuest.

Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.

DQ2 Career Planning

In week 1, one of the resources provided for you is a video that introduces you to UMUC’s Career Services. In this discussion topic, you will consider some of the advice that the Career Services unit provides on career planning. This information will help as you pursue the first writing assignments in the class.

To start, please access the Career Services website at UMUC.

You will see the following list of items:

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Select Career Planning, as indicated by the red arrow above. After you select this link, when you scroll down, you will see the following three sections, outlined in blue in the image below:

Choosing a Major

Strategies for Career Goals

Career Insider by Vault

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Please select at least one of the sections. Peruse the information. Write one paragraph of 125-200 words describing what you found when you examined this information.

Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.

DQ3 locating a professional conference in your field

This discussion topic is designed to help you prepare for writing assignment #1, the report on the professional organization and conference.

Please access the writing assignment instructions by selecting Assignments in the top menu and selecting WA1 – report on professional organization and conference.

Read through the instructions. Then locate a conference sponsored by a professional organization in your field.

In responding to this discussion topic, please post the following:

The name of the organization

The url of the conference it sponsors (this can be the most recent conference or the upcoming conference)

A few sentences about why you picked this conference for writing assignment #1