DISCUSSION: Week (4) articles and assignments
As always, you will meet for your Thursday discussion section synchronous and online using your TA's Zoom room. Find your Zoom room URL from your TA, on your text Discussions board, on our Home page, or on the Zoom Rooms page.
Discuss scholarly articles and hear student speeches
During the first half of discussion, you will discuss the scholarly articles for this week. Each of the two students scheduled to perform speeches on the articles for this week will make their presentations and help lead a discussion on their article. Your TA will likely refer to the reflections you all posted beforehand to your text discussion board. Remember that the deeper understanding of these articles you are able to come to, the more readily you will be able to use them in your essay assignments.
Reflect on recent career assignments
During the second half of discussion, you will reflect on the results from your recent career assignments. In particular, your TA may ask you to think about some of the connections between these different communication and reflection assignments. For example:
- Review your resume. Are there items from your wanderings diagram that might be good things to highlight on your resume? Are there ways of talking about your top strengths that you can make more evident on your resume? (Not by "listing" your strengths on your resume, but by demonstrating them in the bullet points under your experiences.) Are there particular challenge-action-result examples that you can highlight as bullet points under experiences in your resume? What if you rewrote every bullet point on your resume to include strengths language? What if you rewrote every bullet point on your resume in C-A-R format?
- Think about your wanderings diagram. What areas of your life you draw most of the items on this diagram from -- formal jobs? high school or college coursework? volunteering or community work? hobbies or family life? What kind of overall "story" does your wanderings diagram tell about you, your interests, your values, and your strengths? Does that same story come through with your resume? Can this help you think about what kind of story you want a prospective employer to learn about you?