Job Packet Assignment #4:
Resume

Length and genre: 1-2 page resume.

Due date: A complete draft (at least 1 full page) is due in class on February 6, 2002. Final job packet is due in class on February 18, 2003.

Assignment:Your final assignment for this unit is to write a resume that, together with your letter of application, will present you to a potential employer in the best possible way. There are two criteria you need to keep in mind so that your document will fit this assignment.

Purpose A good resume supports and is supported by your letter of application—and like the letter of application, is both informative and persuasive. It must deliver important information about its writer in a way that persuades its reader to respond positively—that's right, a job offer or an invitation to interview.

Audience You know this company well now—think of what will hook them!

Planning and Drafting As you write, remember the things we've been discussing in class:

1. consider the connections between the job description and your skills—how can you tie them together (check out the worksheet again).
2. how will you chunk information? Look at examples from the text and in this packet.
3. how will you incorporate visual design?

Evaluation Criteria Resume:

• reflects rhetorical choices based on careful thought to audience, purpose, and situation
• employs the "reader-centered" readability guidelines we've been discussing
• shows attention to visual choices that help make the document readable and aesthetically pleasing
• fits the assignment guidelines

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