ENG 201 2.T: Norming Job Ads

Today’s Plan:

• Computer Lab Days
• Discuss Miller
• Job Ad Materials
• Homework

Computer Lab Days

I will do my best to remind us of these dates. These are the dates that we will be meeting in the Ross 2261 computer lab.

• Thursday, September 12th
• Thursday, October 3rd
• Thursday, November 7th
• Thursday, November 21st

Miller, “A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing,” 1979

Some questions:

• What is positivism? Why is it a problem for technical writing? What does Miller identify as the most problematic dimension of a non-rhetorical approach to scientific communication?
• Miller identifies 4 problems for technical writing pedagogy that stem from the positivist tradition. How do we avoid them?
• How does Miller–writing in 1979–describe the epistemology that is replacing positivism?
• What does it mean to teach technical writing from a communalist perspective? Why might some students reject a communalist approach to teaching writing?

I assert that Miller’s grounds for labeling technical writing a Humanity lies in what she identifies as a consensualist relation to audience. [Why do I think this? What does this mean?]

Job Analysis Materials

Here is a link to the coding scheme.

Here is a link to our shared coding document.

Here is a temporary link to the collection of jobs. I will be sending out a new link tomorrow afternoon.

Required Job Lists

I have developed four different lists. The first focuses on ads for an Editor. The second focuses on ads for a designer. The third on Social Media. The fourth on Business/Sales. The fifth on writers.

Editor:

1. Content Editor, Tylt
2. Copy Editor, Culture Trip
3. Health Editor, Wainscot
4. Associate Editor, Infobase Holdings
5. Writer/Editor, Columbia Law School
6. Assistant Editor, Davler Media Group
7. Associate Editor, South Carolina Living

Designer:

1. Communications Associate, Wells College
2. Digital Designer (Social Media), Creative Circle
3. Multimedia Producer, ABC7
4. Presentation Designer, Creative Circle
5. Production Designer, Metro US

Social Media

1. Community Manager, Tyit
2. Media Analyst, Hairclub
3. Research Assistant and Communications, Nuclear Policy Program
4. Social Media Manager, Lovepop
5. Social Media Specialist, Word Wildlife Fund
6. Youtube Expert, Social Media Specialist, American Media
7. Writer/Web Content Producer, Fordham Law School

Marketing

1. Associate Manager of Creative Marketing, PHR Audio
2. Coordinator, E! Live Events/Entertainment
3. Executive Assistant, Newsday Media Group
4. Marketing Coordinator, Creative Circle
5. Project Manager, Bloomberg
6. Public Relations Associate, Humane Society
7. Marketing Assistant, Meats by Linz

Sales

1. Account Coordinator for Wine PR Firm, Jarvis Communications
2. Ad Sales Account Executive, Cannabis Now
3. Brand Assistant, Penguin Young Readers
4. Communication Strategist, Earth Justice
5. Digital Strategist, Cox Automotive
6. Diversity and Inclusion Director, NBC News
7. Publishing Sales Rep, WW Norton Company

Writer

1. Buyer’s Guide/Technology Writer, Mark Waring Ventures
2. Food Writer/Reporter, Eat This, Not That
3. Science Writer, IAVI
4. Web Producer/Content Manager, National Review
5. Writer, Global Citizen
6. Writer, NY Government Agency
7. Writer / Marketing Communications Rock Star, Intellysis

Homework

Select on of the categories above. Add them to the list of 10 you generated for today’s class (feel free to revise your original list). Select more jobs until you have a total of 20.

Input your 20 jobs, alphabetically, into the shared coding document, following what I did in class. Make sure you categorize your job as one of the categories above (writer, editor, designer, social media, marketing, sales). If someone has already added your job, then *do not* add it again. If you disagree with someone’s categorization, then write both categorizations into the cell.