To the right and down the page, you'll find the section "Recommended Blogs." A new one I added this summer is Pros Write, which is described as "More workplace success--without platitudes."
The author of the blog is Dr. Kim Sydow Campbell, who is the Associate Dean and a Professor of Management Communication at the University of Alabama.
Pros Write focuses on important aspects of writing and professional/technical communication. In addition, the posts often feature video tutorials that reinforce concepts, offer examples, and provide detailed explanations.
It's an excellent site for both students and faculty.
Check it out.
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Showing posts with label Professionalism. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Writing Really is Everywhere!
Papers, papers, papers. They come in all different forms and styles, especially while you’re in your undergrad program at EIU. I remember thinking that just English majors wrote papers, and everyone else was home free, but I was very wrong. So I wanted to make sure that everyone realized how important the skill of writing is to your future career.
Regardless of your major the Writing Center here at EIU is here to help!
We don’t edit papers, but rather those of us that work in the Writing Center want to help writer’s gain skills that will help them create skills to help with other classes and the careers that you so choose. Because regardless of the place of employment that you end up in, writing will be an aspect of your job, even if it’s engineering or working maintenance.
At the Writing Center we will help you with any assignment that you may have that’s writing related. Here are some examples of the array of things we can help students with.
Narratives
Lesson Plans
Case Studys
Research Papers in any area
Business Proposals
Aspects of writhing a thesis in a masters program
Grad School Application Essays
Essays for scholarship
Lab Reports
APA, MLA, Chicago citations
These are just few of the many areas of writing that you can get help with at the Writing Center.
So don’t be afraid or scared if you hear you have a lot of writing to do in a science class or any other class. Lab reports also require a lot of writing and analysis, and people at the Writing Center can help if you get confused on format or citing or just figuring out where to begin! The biggest help at times may be to also know that you aren’t alone. There are many other students out there who need help on their writing.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Zen and the Art of Email
The text-messaging age has slowly drained the professionalism and clarity from digital communication these days. The informal nature of instant messaging and email between relatives and friends has caused the formal email as we know it to die a quiet and forgettable death.
Though you may be friendly to your professors, it may not be ideal to email them the same way you might email your cousin Mandy about the boy you met last week at the football game. The professor might have trouble deciphering the lol's and omg's that riddle the message, and that same professor may not even give a hoot about how that boy looks just like Owen Wilson.
Writing an email is not unlike writing a paper: you want to stick the point and make said point in as few words as possible. Pay attention to the language you use when writing an email. Obviously an email riddled with four-letter words will not put you on the professor's good side, so do try to be as polite as possible.
Most importantly, however, "think about what you're saying," as Eastern Illinois University's Professor of English Michael Leddy writes. Unless it's down to the wire, you might want to give it some time before you email a professor regarding the unfortunate grade you received on your presentation. This is not to say that when you write an email to a professor that you should take the time to plan and draft as you would a paper, but you should do everything in your power to ensure clarity and conciseness that will allow your professor to read and respond to the multitude of emails they receive on a daily basis.
Professor Leddy created a blog post back in 2005 in order to solve the growing epidemic of poorly-executed student-to-professor emails. In it are things to pull from to use outside of the academic world as well.
Though you may be friendly to your professors, it may not be ideal to email them the same way you might email your cousin Mandy about the boy you met last week at the football game. The professor might have trouble deciphering the lol's and omg's that riddle the message, and that same professor may not even give a hoot about how that boy looks just like Owen Wilson.
Writing an email is not unlike writing a paper: you want to stick the point and make said point in as few words as possible. Pay attention to the language you use when writing an email. Obviously an email riddled with four-letter words will not put you on the professor's good side, so do try to be as polite as possible.
Most importantly, however, "think about what you're saying," as Eastern Illinois University's Professor of English Michael Leddy writes. Unless it's down to the wire, you might want to give it some time before you email a professor regarding the unfortunate grade you received on your presentation. This is not to say that when you write an email to a professor that you should take the time to plan and draft as you would a paper, but you should do everything in your power to ensure clarity and conciseness that will allow your professor to read and respond to the multitude of emails they receive on a daily basis.
Professor Leddy created a blog post back in 2005 in order to solve the growing epidemic of poorly-executed student-to-professor emails. In it are things to pull from to use outside of the academic world as well.
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