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ENGL 1301

Week #6

Chapter 16: “Profiles,” pages 191; 199-204. Write a profile of a career that interests you.

6.1 Reading, Thinking, and Writing Assignments for Week #6:

Read “Writing a Profile,” pages 191, especially “A Brief Guide to Writing Profiles,” pages 199-204.

6.2 Writing Assignment for Week #6: Essay #3 Profiling a Career

a. Identify one or two people in a career that you are interested in pursuing. Consider business people, teachers, nurses, artists, police officers, accountants, computer programmers, sales managers, etc.

b. Conduct personal interviews to find out how that person came to be in that career, how that career has worked out, the advantages and the disadvantages of being in that career, and what, if anything, he or she plans to do next. Construct a list of interview questions and take notes during the interview.

c. Check the Occupational Outlook Handbook for the career that interests you. This book put out regularly by the government contains fairly recent information about all types of jobs. Find the job you have in mind and read the profile of the job as presented in the OOH. You can google “Occupational Outlook Handbook” to find the most recent edition.

d. In addition to the information in the OOH about the career such as training, educational requirements, required certification, availability of jobs, future outlook, working conditions, pay, etc., see if you can find information about that career in the DFW area.

e. Write a profile of that career that incorporates the information you have gathered. To add interest in your essay, you might include anecdotes from your interviewees to help readers understand how they have arrived where they are now, what is involved in pursuing that career, and whether they would recommend the career to young people today.

Think of a targeted audience for your essay as well as your purpose for

writing. Perhaps a friend or classmate has no idea what career to pursue

and your essay will help acquaint him or her with your career choice. Or

perhaps doing this assignment has helped you consider a career that you had

not considered before and you are sharing that information with others.

6.3 Submit your essay as Essay # 3 (make your own appropriate title)

by 11:55 p.m. on the due date posted in Blackboard.

Include a Works Cited page that lists the people you interviewed and the

print or web sources that you used to learn more about that career.

Note: An “essay” should be an organized writing with a minimum of four

typed pages or more.

6.4 Discussion Board for Week #6:

Go to the Discussions and post the concluding paragraph that you have

written for Essay 3. Read the concluding paragraphs of your classmates and

post a comment on at least one.

6.5 Grammar Study 6: Using Apostrophes Correctly

Read and Study Pages HB-75—78.

Objective: To recognize and correct apostrophe errors sentences in your writing.

Besides the pages above in your textbook, there is online instruction on

grammar and sentence structure under “Resources” on the homepage.

Go back to Course Content to find the Grammar Practice Quiz 6. If you do

not score at least a 24 (80%), re-study the material on apostrophes.

Note: Apostrophe errors can create both misused words and unclear

meaning in sentences, but with a little study and practice you can learn to

spot apostrophe errors in your writing and correct them.

If you need one-on-one tutoring in these areas, consider using one of the

Collin Writing Centers either online or on-site. See the syllabus for

contact information.

6.6 Take “Grammar Unit Quiz 6: Apostrophes” by Sunday evening

11:00 p.m.