Description
RWS 305W Project 2: Labor Market Analysis Report
Purpose of the Assignment: To allow you to examine the rhetorical situations involved in communicating technical information to a lay audience. To do this, you will complete a labor market analysis of your chosen career field.
Step 1: Go to the Web site for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/a-z-index.htm). You can copy this URL into the search window at the top of your screen.
(THE JOB IS BECOMING A LAWYER)
Step 2: Answer the following questions about your career field in paragraph form:
What is the nature of the work?
What training, other qualifications, and/or advancement are needed for you to enter and progress in your career field?
What is the outlook for the job you want to seek in your career field?
What are the earnings and wage projections for your job or career field?
What are some other occupations you can consider as an alternative (choose three), and what are the training requirements/qualifications for those positions?
Step 3: Use the formatting guidelines for a short report, including the title page, headings, line spacing, and the integration of charts and graphs into your report. The paper will be approximately eight to ten pages long, single-spaced.
Report Components: These components must be included in your report:
Title page
Answers to the six questions above, each designated with a heading and discussed in paragraph form.
Two charts, tables, or graphs that display and interpret pertinent quantitative information.
Conclusion that summarizes your discussion and answers these questions:
Why do you want to pursue the career you have chosen? Why do you think this career is a good fit for you? What are your strengths and weaknesses and how do they enhance and/or hinder your chances of gaining employment in your desired career field?
You may find the document called “Notes Concerning the Labor Market Analysis Report
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Key 305W Outcomes Met with This Assignment
Students will:
Identify individual discourse communities and find and analyze their characteristic texts, evaluate their credibility and principles, and apply relevant aspects of their information to other contexts and arguments
Analyze the details of a wide variety of writing situations (textual elements such as tone, evidence, organizational patterns, diction, even visuals) according to the authors purpose as well as the audiences needs and tastes
Identify how a writer uses rhetorical strategies in various genres of writing
Interpret, analyze, and evaluate demanding texts
Apply critical thinking skills and reading strategies to evaluate their own writing and the writing of fellow students
Reflect on their own progress as a working writer in relation to critical thinking and reading strategies
Develop flexible strategies for creating, revising, and editing texts
Write with an awareness of audience and purpose
Identify how discourse communities employ particular strategies for conveying, researching, evaluating, and presenting information
Analyze and choose the appropriate conventions for a range of audience expectations
Integrate a variety of appropriate sources into their writing in a way that accurately reflects the writers meaning and purpose
Document sources appropriately
Sustain reasonable correctness in grammar and mechanics to perform well in a variety of writing contexts and professional settings.
