Pulling It All Together

This semester, we covered diverse topics from punctuation and formatting to team building and getting a job. You learned how to produce letters, memos, and e-mail. What were your favorite topics? What did you learn that you are applying? How have your skills and thinking changed? In short, what are your takeaways from class?

Giving and Receiving Feedback

What did you learn about giving and receiving feedback this week? Do you think it applies to writing e-mail on the job? Did you learn any other key points that you would like to share?

Pulling It All Together

This semester, we covered diverse topics from punctuation and formatting to team building and getting a job. You learned how to produce letters, memos, and e-mail. What were your favorite topics? What did you learn that you are applying? How have your skills and thinking changed? In short, what are your takeaways from class?

Pulling It All Together

This semester, we covered diverse topics from punctuation and formatting to team building and getting a job. You learned how to produce letters, memos, and e-mail. What were your favorite topics? What did you learn that you are applying? How have your skills and thinking changed? In short, what are your take-aways from class?

Editing Skills Tune-Up

What are you learning to help you proofread and edit effectively? Which principles are helping you most? As you apply what you are learning, what results are you seeing in your writing?

Reflections

Reflecting is a critical element of learning because it leads to deep learning and personal growth. As you reflect upon what you have learned during the last few months, what insights do you have to share? What advice would you give to others about writing? How have your feelings about writing changed?

Pulling It All Together

What are some of the changes that you have made in your writing? How have your feelings and ideas about writing changed?

Networking and Interviewing

What are some of the things that you learned as you improved your networking and interviewing skills?

Writing in the Professions

What did you learn about the kind of writing that is being done in your chosen profession? Were there any surprises?

E-Communication in the Future

The following question comes from the manager of training and development at a major corporation. Here it is:

Busy professionals write e-mail messages all day. How formal do you think those messages should be? For example, should messages include a salutation and closing? Is it all right to use text abbreviations in messages—why or why not?

Also, consider the business world today compared to the business world 20 years into the future—will the same standards hold? What changes do you think you will see in how e-communication is used in your profession?