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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Writing in the Real World
Guest Blogger Miranda Romano ’16 I expected a long, hallway entrance lined with American flags; crests and red velvet curtains. At least high speed internet. But these were not the things that greeted me on my first day of work in the Congressman’s office. Instead, I stepped into a four room office nestled up in the annex of the local … Continue Reading
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Rhetoric in Media: Examining Ferguson
Sarah Paterson, ENG-PWR ’15 Rhetoric is a pretty nifty media buzzword. Anytime someone – a politician, a news anchor, a football coach – says something polarizing, their statement can be written off as “just rhetoric.” This does a few things: it makes it hard for any student of rhetoric to explain their research to family at the holidays, and it … Continue Reading
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LinkedIn Profile Tips
Carolyn Braganca, English ’15 LinkedIn is a professional networking website—similar to Facebook but more career-focused. This is not the best place to share what parties you went to over the weekend, to post pictures of your food, or to tell a funny story about your cat. This is the kind of website on which you share your career aspirations, your … Continue Reading
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Portfolio Building Prequel: Which Platform to Use?
Hello everyone! We’ll continue our portfolio building week with a discussion about which platform to use and why! Within the Professional Writing and Rhetoric program, students usually create 3-5 portfolios in the course of their studies. Sometimes, these portfolios can be created on any platform. Other times, students are asked to use Digication specifically. There are all sorts of mediums … Continue Reading
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Portfolio Building 101: What I Wish I Knew When I Started
Hello everyone! Welcome to the first week of CUPID Blogging! To start, we’re going to discuss portfolio building, and some tips that I have gathered over the years from experience (and relentlessly questioning other PWR majors). Regardless of your year and level of experience, portfolio building is a crucial skill to develop as a budding professional, and particularly as a Professional Writing … Continue Reading
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Meet the CUPID Associates: Sarah Paterson
Hey there! My name is Sarah Paterson and I am a senior Professional Writing and Rhetoric major with minors in Political Science, Communications, and Creative Writing. I am so excited to start this semester as a CUPID Associate and would love to help you with design questions, portfolio concerns, or anything else PWR during my lab hours (Sundays from 11:30 … Continue Reading
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Meet the CUPID Associates: Alexa Dysch
Hello everyone! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Alexa Dysch and I’m so excited to be back for my second semester as a CUPID Associate. I am a senior (ahhh) pursuing an English major, with a double concentration in Professional Writing & Rhetoric (PWR) and Literature, as well as a double minor in Psychology and … Continue Reading
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Tech Tip: Setting Up a Digication Portfolio
One of the challenges professional writers face is conveying their expertise to potential employers. Final products showcase some of professional writers’ capabilities, but they typically do not capture the process strategies writers/rhetors used to create the final products. Just as artists often develop portfolios to demonstrate the range of their work, professional writers use portfolios to provide evidence of both 1) the range of products they can create and 2) the process strategies they have in their “rhetorical toolkits” to analyze complex rhetorical situations, develop appropriate content, conduct research, user-test drafts, deliver polished documents, and explain their rhetorical choices to clients and supervisors. Continue Reading
Meet the CUPID associates: Rebecca Porter
Hey, there! My name is Rebecca Porter and I am ecstatic to be a CUPID associate for the Fall 2014 semester! I am currently a junior majoring in Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) and Creative Writing. I am also minoring in Theatre Arts. I am excited to begin my work as a CUPID Associate by also by helping many of … Continue Reading
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