Integrated Reading and Writing Project
Introduction
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What is the cost of tuition and fees for your major/program of study? Do you know about the financial aid options that are available for students? Have you applied for scholarships, or do you know where to look for scholarship opportunities? Are you able to create an effective resume and application letter to apply for a job?
This project is designed to help you explore the various ways that students fund their college education, including scholarships, grants, loans, or jobs. You may have some background knowledge about this subject, but this project will help you learn more and to make plans to fund your education.
You will be asked to read several resources about funding for college. While reading these resources, you should use the assigned reading strategies to help you understand and remember the material. (See specific instructions below.)
After reading these resources, you will be asked to write an informative resume and a persuasive letter to apply for an open scholarship or job posting. You will learn how to create effective topic sentences and how to develop an outline. The goal of these assignments is to introduce you to these forms of professional writing and to give you more practice with using reading strategies, a writing process, and technology.
To receive credit for this project, you will need to turn in evidence of using reading and writing strategies, develop a resume with appropriate headings for each section, and develop a scholarship or application letter that meets the minimum length requirement of 300 words.
Skills you will learn and use:
- Describe your previous knowledge
- Take notes and annotate while reading
- Summarize information from a resource
- Plan and write a resume
- Develop effective topic sentences and an outline for a professional letter
- Plan and write a scholarship or application letter
Learning Outcomes:
The chart below describes six student learning outcomes and the associated activities for each outcome:
| Student Learning Outcome (SLO) | Activity |
| SLO 1: Apply reading strategies to facilitate comprehension of academic and workplace reading. | You will be asked to preview, read, and annotate resources about student loans and financial aid.
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| SLO 2: Demonstrate effective use of writing processes for academic and workplace purposes. | Complete a planning and drafting process for a resume and letter. |
| SLO 3: Identify, analyze, and evaluate text features, including main ideas, topic sentences, supporting details, and organization of ideas. | Revise example resumes and letters so that they use text features that readers will expect. |
| SLO 4: Produce sentences and paragraphs that successfully develop ideas with clear purpose and focus. | You will be asked to summarize a resource about student loans and/or financial aid in one-two paragraphs. |
| SLO 5: Identify and correct major errors in sentenc