Links
Job and Grad School Application Materials
1. Penn State Career Services: Resumes and Cover Letters
2. Excellent Article on Developing a Letter of Application (by TECHWR-L)
3. NY Times on Cover Letters
4. Advice for Writing Personal Statements (from George Mason Univ.)
5. Personal Statements--Resources (from Penn State Career Services)
6. Go for the Goals in Your Statement of Purpose (from Accepted.com)
7. Approaches to the Personal Statement (from Univ. of Missouri)
Copyright, Plagiarism, Remix
1. CC Links (from Tech Writing Instructor Jeannette Novakovich)
2. Lawrence Lessig's 'Remix' For The Hybrid Economy
[Radio Interview: 37 min 51 sec]
Lawrence Lessig's previous books include Free Culture and The Future of Ideas.
Fresh Air from WHYY, December 22, 2008 · In his new book Remix, law professor Lawrence Lessig explores the changing landscape of intellectual property in the digital age -- and argues that antiquated copyright laws should be updated.
Lessig is a columnist for Wired and the chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that promotes the legal sharing, repurposing and remixing of creative work.
(Listen by following this link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98591002)3. Creative Commons
4. Media Commons at Penn State--resources on copyright and fair use.
5. A Fair(y) Use Tale--Disney Spoof:
Blog Tech Tips
1. How to Insert an Image into a Blog Entry or Page
2. How to Embed a YouTube Video into your Blog
3. How to Create a Link to a Document
4. How to Direct Personal PSU Homepage to your Blog@Penn State
5. Coding and Instructions for Advanced Users of Blogs@PSU
(site designed by other 202C students; makes use of Jing software to offer screencasts along with written instructions)
6. Creating Wordle Clouds for Your Online Portfolio
7. How to Take a Screenshot
(or wordier instructions here)
Writing and Designing for the Web
1. Writing for the Web: Guidelines for MIT Libraries
2. Jakob Nielsen: The Guru of Webpage Usability
2. 20 Tips for Writing for the Web
3. Designing Documents Website--a vivid, beautiful, helpful web tutorial created by fellow ENGL 202C Instructor Jeannette Novakovich for her Penn State students using Blogs@PSU platform.
Proposals
Markel's Chapter 16, " Writing Proposals", mentions proposals written in response to government RFPs (requests for proposals). The chapter discusses not only the types and contexts of different proposals, but also the "deliverables" of proposals, and how those deliverables often have to be tracked through a series of progress reports. Here's an example of a grant proposal I wrote and tracked for Pennsylvania Certified Organic (PCO), which was funded by USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education arm: "Focus on Organic Dairy: An Integrated Program for Pennsylvania Producers".
Instruction Sets
1. New Yorker--Humorous Instruction Set
2. Using Personas to Create User Documentation (including Instruction Sets)
- Washington Post article: "In Retail, Profiling for a Profit"
- "Create Personas to Bridge the Gap with Target Audiences"
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