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 Write and turn in the five writing assignments detailed below.
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Writing Assignments

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Assignment #1: A Professional Resume and a Statement of Personal Vision

The resume should be on a single sheet, unless you have a significant amount of relevant work experience.   The Statement of Personal Vision should also be confined to a single sheet.  Information on resumes can be found on the web and in the resource library at the Career Center.  Information on writing a Statement of Personal Vision can be found in the text.

This should be a serious look at the current job market you are preparing to enter.  Consider your skills and interest, then locate the likely prospects for employment.  Tell me who they are and who the contacts to start the ball rolling.  You should be doing this anyway, tell me how it is going. This should be 2-3 pages.

Review the classes required for degree completion and recommend possible improvements.  Consider topics which would be valuable and topics which seemed to be of little value. Any serious recommendation will be valuable. Take as many pages as needed, but it should be at least two. Optionally, take an extra page to critique this web page and make suggestions for improvement.

The text states that only a principle centered life is capable of consistent effectiveness. To live such a life, you must have a concept of what your personal principles are. In 2-3 pages, state those principles you believe that you must live by. To avoid disagreement on value judgements, this paper will be graded on completeness, not on content. Don't write it to say what you think I want you to say. Write it to truly reflect what you believe.

Now that you have established your vision of life and the principles by which that life should be lived, make your mission statement. 1-2 pages.

Take a copy of your Louisiana Tech Transcript and a curriculum checksheet. For each course on the checksheet Indicate the grade made in the course. If you are substituting a course for the one listed, put the name of the substituted course as well as the grade. Follow the guidelines below:,

1. Only use courses on your Tech transcript. If you expect to use them to graduate, they must be on your Tech transcript, (If they are not there, you need to find out why not)
2. If you have repeated a course, it is the last grade that counts. That is your official Tech grade for that course,
3. All your math grades must be a 'C' or better to graduate,
4. If you use a 490 class, also indicate the quarter in which you took it,
5. Indicate classes for which you are currently enrolled with 'IP' (in progress)
6. If you are using transfer credits from another institution, prepare a separate document with six columns. Column 1 should be the Tech course for which you are substituting. Column 2 is the number of credit hours for that Tech couse. Column 3 should be the transfer course you are using to substitute. Column 4 should be the number of hours for the transfer course. Make sure the hours are in semester hours. These should be correctly listed on your Tech transcript. Column 5 is the grade you made in the transfer course. Column 6 is the institution from which you are transfering. CCAF electrical courses will have no specific Tech course, nor will many electives. Just list them as CCAF credits or social science elective as necessary.

Contact Information:
        J. William Ray, jr.
        P.O. Box 10348
        Louisiana Tech University
        Ruston, LA 71272-0046
        Phone: (318) 257-2262         Fax: (318) 257-4922
         ray@coes.latech.edu