Day 8 posting--last posting!

For your last blog, please make a case for what grade you think you would deserve in this class if it were not Pass/Fail. Please be as specific as possible.

Day 7 group work

Each group member should link to and read the workplace etiquette tips on the following three sites. Then the group can discuss any experiences each member has had with others blatantly violating such etiquette in the workplace. Next, discuss in a paragraph (a well-developed paragraph is longer than three sentences!) some of the etiquette violations your group member's have seen or experienced. Put all group member's names on the post. Only one posting (hence one paragraph) is needed per group. Make sure your paragraph has a focus and a topic sentence and that each sentence in the paragraph is a supporting detail. This is a complicated assignment, so show me and the class what you can achieve as a group!

http://www.sideroad.com/Business_Etiquette/workplace-etiquette.html


http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/careerbytes/CBArticle.aspx?articleID=972&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=b992ca3475b74f2eac69205d81b7befa-272626349-JI-5&ns_siteid=ns_us_g_the_new_workplace_eti_


http://www.advancedetiquette.com/newsletter/feb04_issue.htm

Day 6 post

If you could invite three individuals--living or dead--to dinner, which three would you choose and why? Please explain in a well-developed paragraph.

Day 5 post

Please look at Forbes' list of the world's richest people and click on some of their names to learn more about them. Then, in a well-developed paragraph, discuss some trends, demographic or otherwise, that you notice among these super-elite. What about today's world makes it possible for these individuals to be so enormously wealthy?
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

Day 4 blog

Please read the news story at the link below and then write a well-developed paragraph about whether or not you think this article is well-written. Please be as specific as possible and provide plenty of details to back up your opinions.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/08/troubled-football-standout-tries-one-last-chance

Day 3 Groupwork

Using many details and much specificity, describe one of the following to someone who has not ever heard of it. Just choose one. Please include all group member's names in your posting.

Wikipedia
Second Life
Ted.com
Myspace
Halo 3

Day 2 groupwork

Writing Purpose Activity

Only one group member needs to post here, but please include all names of group members. Please select one member of your group and describe him or her in detail for three different purposes:
1. so one many identify him or her in a crowded airport;
2. for an "America's Most Wanted" ad;
3. for a dating website (describe him or her, not what he or she is looking for in a partner).

Have fun with this!