Integrated Reading and Writing Project
Introduction
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This project is designed to help you explore different careers and learn more about your chosen career or field of work. In this unit you will explore your proposed career and a few other related careers. You will have an opportunity to examine your own interests and abilities and make a decision about which career is a great choice for you in the light of your personality traits and interests. You will read about the American economy and will look at projections of job growth and other data related to employment.
You will continue to expand your reading and writing skills as you embark on one of the most important decisions of your life: which career or profession should you pursue? Many people spend more time planning their vacations or holidays than making plans for their future. In this unit, you will have the opportunity to explore your career interests and make some specific plans for reaching your academic and career goals.
After reading two resources, you will be asked to create a report. The goal of this report is to share what you have learned about your intended career field. You will be asked to share your report with your classmates so that they can learn about other career fields. You will be asked to develop ideas for a report with the following sections:
- Introduction – Introduce your chosen career and describe your purpose for writing. Introduce the main things you learned by reading this project’s resources.
- Body Paragraphs – Your body paragraphs should share the three to five most important things you learned about your career field. Develop three to five headings to organize the information you learned. With each section, share one thing you learned. Develop strong paragraphs that focus on a topic and include interesting details about your career choice. (Make sure to correctly summarize, paraphrase, and/or quote information from the resources so that you avoid plagiarism.) When using information from other sources, explain where the information was originally written (example: According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook…”). Explain how this information will help you with your short-term and long-term goals. Also, describe what else you might do to learn more information.
- Conclusion – Create a conclusion to give your report a sense of completion.
To receive credit for this project, you will need to turn in evidence of using reading/writing strategies and to develop a report that includes headings for each section and meets the minimum length requirement of 400 words. You will also need to meet the requirements on the assignment rubric.
Skills you will learn and use:
- Interpret charts and visual displays of data
- Take notes using the Cornell note-taking system
- Summarize and paraphrase information
- Plan, conduct, and write a career exploration report
Learning Outcomes:
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