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Employment Opportunities in your Career Field Examine the classified advertising section of the Sunday Indianapolis Star as well as Internet job sites such as monster.com/ hotjobs.com, or http://indystar.gannettonline.com/careerbuilder/index.html. Try to determine employment opportunities for people in the career field you plan to enter upon graduation. Look for openings at the entry level unless a higher level would be appropriate in your situation. Examine advertisements carefully. Some do not have descriptive titles, yet offer employment opportunities in your field. Determine from the advertisements answers to these questions: Which qualifications are most often listed? What is the average salary? How are you asked to apply? Do advertisements indicate opportunities for promotion? Is travel or relocation necessary? Present the answer to these questions, plus others that you believe to be important, in a short report directed to students interested in career opportunities in your major field. Use charts or tables if they would be appropriate to present some of your findings in the most readable style. Write the report in third person (don=t use Ayou.@) Evaluating the Writing Situation Before writers can turn out a good document, they must consider what the document is about. This means evaluating certain standard features of the writing situation: the purpose, the audience, the type of document. It also means considering the specific condition under which the document is being written: the larger organizational context, whether it is being written by a group, time constraints, and so on. After reviewing the guidelines for the assignment above, answer the following questions to evaluate the writing situation. Use memo format, and direct it to me. 1. What is your purpose? Are you writing to inform? To help readers make a decision? To help readers learn how to do something? To persuade readers to do something? Other? If the purpose of a document is not clear, the choices a writer makes will also not be clear. Because audience and purpose typically determine both the content and the presentation of a workplace document, it is important to determine its purpose as soon as possible. 2. Who is your audience? What are the audience=s needs and wants? What is their purpose in reading? How much do they already know? How receptive will they be? More has been written recently about audience than about any other aspect of writing. The reason for this is obvious: even if all your sentences are clear, all your paragraphs unified and well organized, your language precise, and your words spelled correctly, determining and evaluating the audience for a specific piece of writing is a crucial step of the writing process. Your document is a failure if it doesn=t communicate effectively with your specific audience. Many features of a final document, such as format, amount of detail, and tone, will be determined by the audience. 3. What do you need to find out? What different types of data are needed to write the document effectively? 4. What are the available resources? Other than your own knowledge, what can help you write this document? Online resources? Library? Experts? Other? 5. What are the time constraints? How will you manage to complete this assignment by the due date? The most common constraint on writing tasks is the deadline. Schedule each part of your writing process to allow sufficient time for gathering information, drafting, revising, and editing. Other questions will arise as you actually begin drafting the document, such as What are the most important facts to include? What level of detail is appropriate? What is the best way to arrange the information? What kind of graphics, if any, you should include? What is the best design for the document?