How has listening to Jesus’ voice led you to live out the Church’s mission to continue Christ’s work?

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The Eternal Mission

How has listening to Jesus’ voice led you to live out the Church’s mission to continue Christ’s work?

How has listening to Jesus’ voice led you to live out the Church’s mission to continue Christ’s work?

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The Eternal Mission

How has listening to Jesus’ voice led you to live out the Church’s mission to continue Christ’s work?

Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

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Common application/ personal statement essay

“Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.”

What are you experiencing? What kind of problem does it cause you? What makes you feel that this is a problem? Why do you want to solve the problem?

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Nursing program

The essay should identify a problem that you are facing in your life, i.e., work, health, family, relationship, etc., and follow the character development structure to figure out a possible solution. That is, it should follow the structure of the four body paragraphs outlined for the character development:

Before: What are you experiencing? What kind of problem does it cause you?

Catalyst: What makes you feel that this is a problem? Why do you want to solve the problem?

Process: What are the steps/measures you plan to take/implement to solve the problem? What do you think can/will gradually change/improve the problem?

After: What do you anticipate to be the reward(s) that you can expect to receive as a result of the change?

Think about the life of Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” and consider how her life might not have been as free as she might have imagined it should the ending have been different. If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?

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The Moral of the Story is….

What this paper is:
This exercise is designed to allow you to express your thoughts about a short story. For example, you may discuss a theme found in one of the stories we have covered or discuss an author’s use of symbolism. You may make a point about the historical context of a particular writing, or how a particular author deals with a topic or relationship. You may compare the way two authors deal with a topic, or type of character, or make an argument about a particular story’s meaning.
You must make a claim about the story and support it with quotes and paraphrases from the story itself. Outside research is optional but it may help.

What this paper is not:
This paper is not a book report nor a simple summary. While you should plan to summarize parts or the whole of the story, do not simply tell your readers what happened. Make a defendable claim about it.
While you may start with an opinion about the work in question, you should make provable points (backed up with quotation or paraphrase from the text) rather than relying on guess work, or first impressions.
Avoid using phrases like “I think” or “I believe” as these weaken your writing by making your reader think you’re not sure.
Proposals
In class we will discuss proposals for topics for this paper. You should try to come up with a tentative thesis statement in to discuss in class.

Examples of Topics: (you are not limited to these)

Discuss the obsessive need for June’s mother to find a way for June to be a prodigy in “Two Kinds” and what that might do to a child’s self-esteem.

Compare Harry to the dead Leopard from the first lines of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. What are each of them symbolically or actually climbing? Does the image of the hyena come into play here?

Think about the life of Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” and consider how her life might not have been as free as she might have imagined it should the ending have been different. If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?

Find local news coverage of a recent election on the Internet and analyze the language used to describe the campaigns. Include a link to the site or article. How is it gendered? What kinds of metaphors are used? How could the report(s) be rewritten as gender-neutral?

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Politics, Prison, and the military

Find local news coverage of a recent election on the Internet and analyze the language used to describe the campaigns. Include a link to the site or article. How is it gendered? What kinds of metaphors are used? How could the report(s) be rewritten as gender-neutral?

Engage our course textbook or online materials in your posts.

Your main post should be at least 400 words in length

Write a cover letter that explains your qualifications for a job or graduate school admission with an emphasis on the scientific and technical communication skills you have worked on in WR 320.

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Final Portfolio Cover Letter

Tasks
1. Read Chapter 12 (Links to an external site.) in the Technical Writing textbook about employment materials. Pay close attention to the cover letter https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/chapter/y-3-cover-letters/ section as this is one of the required genres for the portfolio.

2. Review the career competencies described by https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/competencies/career-readiness-defined/ Identify at least three that you have worked in WR 320 and are relevant to either a job or a graduate program in which you are interested.

3. Imagine a potential employer or find a job in which you are interested in applying. Or identify a graduate program that you would like to apply to. Read up on the employer/graduate school and conduct an audience analysis on your own to guide the decisions you make in your cover letter and which projects to include in your portfolio.

4. Select two writing projects to include in your portfolio. The projects can be any that you have completed for WR 320 — including your Origin Story, Progress Reports and Memos, Instructions, Group Process Description, Proposal, Technical Report, Presentation (outline and slides). NOTE: The best portfolios will include your Technical Report. You will need to get permission from me if you plan not to include your Technical Report.

5. Revise and polish the two projects using feedback from me, your team, and any other resource available to you (friends, family, tutors in your unit).

6. Write a cover letter that explains your qualifications for a job or graduate school admission with an emphasis on the scientific and technical communication skills you have worked on in WR 320. Be sure to include a description of how they relate to the career competencies employers desire in new hires.

7. Submit to this assignment at the end of Week 10. The assignment will remain open for submission without penalty through Dec. 8.

“A” Pathway
If you are interested in having the Final Portfolio count as an “A” Pathway assignment, you will need to identify and revise one additional writing project for a total of three to include in the portfolio.

In addition, you are required to submit a 500-word reflection to the “A” Pathway Portfolio assignment describing your decision-making process about the projects you included and the revisions you made to the projects. You should also include a reflection about what you learned from completing the additional revision that you will use in the future.

What kind of writer are you? What do you think is your writing style? Compare yourself to an animal or a color or the weather or a person or think of another way to describe your writing style.

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Consider who you were as a write in September and who you are as a writer now in December, three months and many assignments later.

To help you reflect, respond to the following 4 questions in a loose essay form:

1. How well do you think you express your ideas through writing?
What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?

2. What kind of writer are you? What do you think is your writing style?
Compare yourself to an animal or a color or the weather or a person or think of another way to describe your writing style.

3. Describe your unique drafting process. What exactly do you do? How do you draft, move from draft #1 to draft #2. What are your plans for draft #3?

4. What surprised you about your writing this semester? What disappointed you?

I encourage you to be creative! What sound do your fingers make on the keyboard as you type? What color ink do you use to freewrite or annotate? What sounds occur around you when you try to write–is it a loud kitchen full of bustle and voices, a quiet bedroom with blue flowered wallpaper, or what? Use details and narrative to tell your story as a writer.

If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?

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The Moral of the Story is….

 

What this paper is:
This exercise is designed to allow you to express your thoughts about a short story. For example, you may discuss a theme found in one of the stories we have covered or discuss an author’s use of symbolism. You may make a point about the historical context of a particular writing, or how a particular author deals with a topic or relationship. You may compare the way two authors deal with a topic, or type of character, or make an argument about a particular story’s meaning.
You must make a claim about the story and support it with quotes and paraphrases from the story itself. Outside research is optional but it may help.
Documentation is required, and I will help

What this paper is not:
This paper is not a book report nor a simple summary. While you should plan to summarize parts or the whole of the story, do not simply tell your readers what happened. Make a defendable claim about it.
While you may start with an opinion about the work in question, you should make provable points (backed up with quotation or paraphrase from the text) rather than relying on guess work, or first impressions.
Avoid using phrases like “I think” or “I believe” as these weaken your writing by making your reader think you’re not sure.

Proposals
In class we will discuss proposals for topics for this paper. You should try to come up with a tentative thesis statement in to discuss in class.

Examples of Topics: (you are not limited to these)
Discuss the obsessive need for June’s mother to find a way for June to be a prodigy in “Two Kinds” and what that might do to a child’s self-esteem.

Compare Harry to the dead Leopard from the first lines of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. What are each of them symbolically or actually climbing? Does the image of the hyena come into play here?

Think about the life of Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” and consider how her life might not have been as free as she might have imagined it should the ending have been different. If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?

Your essay should:
Revolve around a clear thesis that makes a single arguable claim. Support this claim with concrete examples that are fully explained.

Nuts and Bolts:
-2-3 pages 1” margins, 12 pt. Times New Roman, double spaced
-Proofread for sentence and word level clarity and adherence to MLA conventions
-Follow MLA conventions for in-text citations and include an MLA works cited list
-Have a title – come up with your own title!

Significant Dates:
-In class Proposal discussion
-Peer review- Bring completed draft to class
-Final Draft of Essay 4

Create a news report (fictional or real) about an environmental event such as a fire, earthquake, drought, heavy rain, flood etc.

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News report

Create a news report (fictional or real) about an environmental event such as a fire, earthquake, drought, heavy rain, flood etc. Select a location (city or country) and present it to the class, pointing out your use of the passive tense throughout.