What English Majors Need to Know to Find Careers in Project Management, Corporate Communications, Grant Proposal Writing, and Technical Editing

What English Majors Need to Know to Find Careers in Project Management, Corporate Communications, Grant Proposal Writing, and Technical Editing
Author: Anne Hart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980968719

What English Majors Need to Know to Find Careers in Project Management and Technical Editing, and Strategies in Corporate Communications Direction, Learning Design, Social Media Content Creation, and Grant Proposal, Public Relations, or Biomedical Regulatory or Marketing and Science Writing. Why Technical Editing, Writing, Marketing, Regulatory, and Public Relations Management has Stopped Snickering at the English Major. Some English majors seeking jobs making use of their writing and editing abilities, and some English teachers have shifted into industry as instructional development specialists and technical writers. You may wish to listen to my audio recording on technical writing careers at: https://archive.org/details/TechWriting1. Or you may wish to listen to my audio recording on medical ghostwriting careers at: https://archive.org/details/MedicalGhostwritingTechniques. Technical communicators prepare instruction manuals, how-to guides, journal articles, and supporting documents to communicate complex and technical information more easily. Skills emphasized in technical writing are clarity, accuracy, and the ability to make complex materials easier to follow, usually step-by-step. The result of technical writing and communicating is to solve problems, achieve measurable results, and make it possible for the reader to follow the instructions. Technical writing varies from writing instructions on how to assemble a device or make it work and know how to shut off and put on the power to making instructions user-friendly by making the complex easier to understand. Technical writers/technical communicators also develop, gather, and disseminate technical information through an organization's communications channels. And technical writers may design, create, and present public relations and promotional materials, advertising copy or infomercials. A corporate communications director works with technical writers and illustrators to promote and present corporate publications or video. And a digital communications specialist writes promotional materials for corporations about corporations and researches/presents writing and images about a corporation's achievements or news digitally also to social media. Liberal Arts colleges and universities produce more English majors with B.A.'s and M.A.'s each semester than any other humanities major graduating with highest grades, and in some schools of Education and liberal arts, many of these graduates include students seeking alternative careers to teaching or editing fiction, plays, and entertainment scripts.Some graduates wish to have careers in journalism, public relations, marketing, and advertising in the creative end, perhaps as creative directors working with artists with similar career plans. With the increasing evolution of technology, more jobs are opening for those interested in technical, medical, health/nutrition, science, and marketing writing for technical and/or scientific firms.

Invaders and Infidels (Book 1)

Invaders and Infidels (Book 1)
Author: Sandeep Balakrishna
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-11-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9390077222

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilisation is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. ~Will Durant, American historian Invaders and Infidels: From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions is a work of gripping history, which tells the story of the origins and trajectory of Islamic invasions into India. It begins with the first Muslim conquest and ends with Babur's invasion of Hindustan, spanning the period of the Delhi Sultanate which was in power for almost 320 years. This epochal story encompasses a vast sweep of events, which changed the history of India forever, and introduced it to an alien faith and a religious despotism such as the country had never experienced before. It comprises major and minor sagas of great heroism, untold savagery, stout resistance, brutal intrigues and epic tragedies. Embedded in this narrative are two major themes, largely overlooked in the inherited Indian historical and cultural memory. For more than three hundred years, alien Muslim invasions into India were largely fleeting, transitory and unstable. However, the lasting legacy of these Muslim invasions is the permanent destruction and disappearance of Classical India. Invaders and Infidels will fascinate anyone interested in the story of pre-Medieval India, a gateway era in the history of this ancient culture and civilisation.

How to Become a Technical Writer

How to Become a Technical Writer
Author: Susan Bilheimer
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-09
Genre: Communication of technical information
ISBN: 9780970196415

If you can write clear, concise instructions, then you can be a technical writer. Learn, step-by-step, how to turn your creative writing talent into a highly lucrative career, where you get paid big money consistently to use your writing skills.

Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions

Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions
Author: David F. Beer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2003-07-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780471444732

An updated edition of the classic guide to technical communication Consider that 20 to 50 percent of a technology professional's time is spent communicating with others. Whether writing a memo, preparing a set of procedures, or making an oral presentation, effective communication is vital to your professional success. This anthology delivers concrete advice from the foremost experts on how to communicate more effectively in the workplace. The revised and expanded second edition of this popular book completely updates the original, providing authoritative guidance on communicating via modern technology in the contemporary work environment. Two new sections on global communication and the Internet address communicating effectively in the context of increased e-mail and web usage. As in the original, David Beer's Second Edition discusses a variety of approaches, such as: * Writing technical documents that are clear and effective * Giving oral presentations more confidently * Using graphics and other visual aids judiciously * Holding productive meetings * Becoming an effective listener The new edition also includes updated articles on working with others to get results and on giving directions that work. Each article is aimed specifically at the needs of engineers and others in the technology professions, and is written by a practicing engineer or a technical communicator. Technical engineers, IEEE society members, and technical writing teachers will find this updated edition of David Beer's classic Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions an invaluable guide to successful communication.

E-Writing

E-Writing
Author: Dianna Booher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2001-07-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0743419510

Are you guilty of e-mail "trigger finger"? Do you constantly "cc" people you never even see? What are today's rules for conducting business over the Internet? Now, The Elements of Style meets "the Miss Manners of memos" in the ultimate writing guide for the digital age. In an era when written communication in the workplace is more crucial than ever, at a time when many professionals all but completely eschew face-to-face dealings, E-writing is poised to become the new bible of business writing. Accessible and inviting, this Web-savvy "how-to" book promises to transform anxious e-mail hacks and mediocre memo writers into eloquent electronic scribes in no time at all. Inside, you will learn how to: combat counterproductive e-mail habits write authoritatively and persuasively, with a clear message that generates quick action handle e-mail and letter correspondence efficiently and effectively select an appropriate style for the audience you're addressing heighten your professional image, self-confidence, and career prospects. Practicing what she preaches, award-winning communicator and bestselling author Dianna Booher writes in a refreshingly straightforward style and has organized E-writing to make on-the-spot referencing a snap. Keep it handy; refer to it often -- and your online mailbox will never be the same again.

General Catalog

General Catalog
Author: Iowa State University
Publisher:
Total Pages: 958
Release: 1989
Genre: Universities and colleges
ISBN:

The Professor Is In

The Professor Is In
Author: Karen Kelsky
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0553419420

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Other Ways to Win

Other Ways to Win
Author: Kenneth C. Gray
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006-02-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781412917810

Now in its third edition, this bestseller offers new data, recommendations, and observations that explore the choices for success available to students in the academic middle.

The New Rules of Work

The New Rules of Work
Author: Alexandra Cavoulacos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0451495675

"In this definitive guide to the ever-changing modern workplace, Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, the co-founders of popular career website TheMuse.com, show how to play the game by the New Rules. The Muse is known for sharp, relevant, and get-to-the-point advice on how to figure out exactly what your values and your skills are and how they best play out in the marketplace. Now Kathryn and Alex have gathered all of that advice and more in The New Rules of Work. Through quick exercises and structured tips, the authors will guide you as you sort through your countless options; communicate who you are and why you are valuable; and stand out from the crowd. The New Rules of Work shows how to choose a perfect career path, land the best job, and wake up feeling excited to go to work every day-- whether you are starting out in your career, looking to move ahead, navigating a mid-career shift, or anywhere in between"--