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Communication Problem #4: Revising Your Résumé and Assessing Your Work

Keywords: reflection, assessment, revision

Course outcomes addressed: Analyze the rhetorical situation of technical communication; create technical documents to solve problems; write effective technical prose; design convincing, effective, and usable technical documents; create ethical technical documents.

The Communication Problem

In this final assignment, you will do two main things:

1. Rethink your résumé and adapt it as a web portfolio, including any new skills you've picked up during class (along with a link to your portfolio, you will submit a 400-word rationale for why you designed the portfolio the way you did as well as any improvements you might make with more time)
2. Reflect on your work in this course and the progress you've made in a reflection memo

<aside> 💡 For Fall 2020, you do not have to do both 1 and 2. You may select either the web portfolio or the reflection memo and complete that as your final project.

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Deliverables

1a. Web Portfolio (Electronic Résumé)

Occasionally revisiting your résumé to incorporate new experiences and skills is an effective strategy to ensure that your résumé stays current. To complete this assignment, you should use the résumé you initially created as a starting place, but you may add to it and expand where necessary as you adapt it into a web portfolio. Your portfolio may be only one page long (a scrolling website is a common practice), or you may use multiple pages. You will explain your choices in your 400-600 word rationale, which is what you will submit on Blackboard along with a link to your portfolio (see 1b below).

Requirements for a B

• Build your web portfolio in Weebly, Wix, or a similar tool. (If you want to code your own site or use Figma, that is also fine.)
• Your portfolio may be one, long, scrolling page, or it may be divided into multiple pages.
• Include a short paragraph or page that gives the reader an overview of who you are and what your top knowledge, skills, and abilities are. (Think of this as the About page or About section.)
• Display your education, work experience, skills, and activities on a page (or multiple pages) of the site OR clearly link to an easy-to-access PDF of your paper résumé. (If you choose to link to the PDF, be sure you use Gestalt principles when designing the link/download button and that you provide context for what the résumé is. Consider using an icon or other image to help the link stand out.)
• Do not use any images that do not belong to you without approval from the original owner and/or using the appropriate Creative Commons attribution.
• Include a mechanism for people to contact you (display your email address or have a contact form).