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Responding To High Stakes Writing: When Six Colleagues Read One Cover Letter, Sarah Snyder, Mark Blaauw-Hara, Cristyn Elder, Joseph Janangelo, Michael Pemberton, Staci Perryman-Clark, Irwin Weiser
Responding To High Stakes Writing: When Six Colleagues Read One Cover Letter, Sarah Snyder, Mark Blaauw-Hara, Cristyn Elder, Joseph Janangelo, Michael Pemberton, Staci Perryman-Clark, Irwin Weiser
Journal of Response to Writing
As preparation for the rhetoric and composition job market becomes more readily available through multiple sources, some cover letter writers may find themselves confused by the well-meaning, but perhaps conflicting, responses to writing given by mentors from differing backgrounds, statuses, and epistemes. This article seeks to illuminate the rhetorical situation behind the cover letter with simulated writing responses to a genuine cover letter by five reader archetypes: a supportive reader, a critical reader, an outside reader, a teaching-centric reader, and a research-centric reader. Through this exercise, cover letter writers are shown how to weigh writing advice through the juxtaposition of …
Manufacturing And Engineering [Career Paper], Mahdi Alawami
Manufacturing And Engineering [Career Paper], Mahdi Alawami
Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.
Feminists Face The Job Market: Q & A (Questions & Anecdotes), Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Feminists Face The Job Market: Q & A (Questions & Anecdotes), Elisabeth Rose Gruner
English Faculty Publications
When I began work on this paper I designed a questionnaire to be filled out by women who had recently been on the job market. It asked for fairly detailed information: titles of accepted articles, writing samples, and dissertation, number of MLA interviews, other interviews, campus visits, kinds of questions asked, etc. I had hoped, I think, to develop a magic formula—twelve writing sample requests divided by three interviews multiplied by two publications equals an 87% chance of getting a job, for example. But I had trouble developing the formula; no common patterns emerged. The first thing I did learn …
Maine Alumnus, Volume 39, Number 9, June 1958, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine
Maine Alumnus, Volume 39, Number 9, June 1958, General Alumni Association, University Of Maine
UMaine Alumni Magazines - All
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A Trip To Bryant Pond --- 760 Students Receive Degrees --- Honorary Awards Go To Gardner '10, Lincoln '05 --- Say 'Hello' To Your Trustees --- Dean Hart '85 Awarded Alumni Service Emblem --- Nutting '27, Shay Take Top Posts