Business/Professional Writing

General Business Writing Issues

Email Etiquette
This presentation was designed in response to the growing popula rity of email in the workplace and the subsequent need for information on how to craft appropriate email messages, communicate with colleagues and classmates, and participate in electronic mailing lists. Anyone who uses email (regardless of regularity or purpose) will find this workshop to be useful. This presentation includes explanations and activities for audience participation. (Writer and Designer: Stephanie Williams Hughes with contributions from Angela Laflen, updated April 2002)

Writing Business Messages
This presentation is designed to help writers analyze their audience and organize information effectively in business messages. The 41 slides presented here ar e designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation about the business writing process. This presentation is ideal for any writer who desires to write more effective and persuasive business messages. (Writer and Designer: Angel a Laflen, with contributions from Stephanie Williams Hughes and Victoria Kellough, updated April 2002)

Employment Documents

Cover Letters
This presentation is designed to help students more fully un derstand the expectations readers have when reading a cover letter. This presentation is ideal for any student, especially those students who are nearing the time when they will be ready to apply for jobs or internships. (Writers and Design ers: Angela Laflen and Jennifer Liethen Kunka)

Crossing the Finish Line: Writing a Job Acceptance Letter
This presentation is designed to help students and job seekers understand how to prepare a job acceptance letter. This presentation is ideal for anyone involved in the job search process. (Writers and Designers:Vicki Kellough, Lindsay Trawick, and Heather Long)

Developing Your Resume
This sixty-one slide presentation takes job seekers through a comprehensive interactive workshop about the drafting and desigining of their resume sections, including the contact information, the objective statement, the education sect ion, the experience section, and the honors and activities section. (Writer and Designer: Bryan Kopp)

Each of the resume sections may also be downloaded and presented as a separate workshop:

The Contact Information Section

The Objective Statement

The Education Section

The Experience Section

The Honors and Activities Section

 

Resume and Cover Letter (combined PowerPoint)
This presentation is a combination of the resume and cover letter prese ntations. It covers both resume development basics and cover letter basics. (Writers and Designers: Angela Laflen and Jennifer Liethen Kunka)

Resumes
This 40- to 45-minute presentation is designed to hel p students develop their resumes and attract the attention of prospective employers. This presentation covers methods for developing each section of the resume and is well-suited to any person preparing documents for the job search process. (Writers and Designers: Angela Laflen and Jennifer Liethen Kunka)

Scannable Resumes
This presentation is designed to assist students in learning the various methods for crafting a technologically co rrect document that will be successfully translated into a potential employer's database. This workshop is ideal for students who are nearing the time when they will be ready to apply for jobs or internships and need to tailor their resume for scanning. (Writer: Stephanie Williams Hughes)

Agricultural Economics/Cooperative Extension

Powerful & Practical: Writing the Impact Report
This presentation offers rhetorical and practical advice for how to write good impact reports for programs. (Writer and Designer: Mitch Simpson)

Principles for Powerful Persuasion
This presentation is designed to teach principles for persuasion when giving presentations to audiences and groups about programs. (Writer and Designer: Mitch Simpson)

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