Harty- Resumes

• Don't confuse customers by flaunting things that do not speak to their needs
• It is important to know what the job is about
• resumes are very useful when employers advertise and list the qualifications they seek
• Application letters are very important- they make an employer interested in you
• application letters should look buisnesslike, have no spelling, and be to the point
• the more words you use, the less they are worth
• write and rewrite letters
• the value of a resume is frequently more in its preparation than in its use
• make it attractive to read
• you want your resume to reflect an orderly mind
• do not overemphasize less important items
• spacing is important, it can either emphasize good things or unemphasize bad things
• use headings to attract readers 
• in a functional resume, you can develop a different message for each job or type of job you wish to apply for
• there is no reason why each resume can't be slanted to appeal to the particular employer
• C.V.- curriculum vitae- a resume for academic positions and as such does not need a statement of goals or interest
• a career interest leads to a simple way of stating the purpose of the resume
• keep a resume to one page if possible

Multimedia part of presentation

For the multimedia part of my presentation, I am designing a webpage covering various aspects of the study abroad process. I hope to include both pictures, as well as video clips of someone going about the different steps of the process.

Nazi Records- the origin and use of information

Technical communication involves people connecting with other people about matters of mutual human concern.

• some values embedded in the scientific frame of mind can be carried to extremes
• of particular concern is the emotional disengagement of the researcher from the human research subject
• under Nazi power, science was not science for its own sake, rather it belonged to another value system, that of racial supremacy
• scandals have arisen over the use of human anatomical samples in medical education that came from prison and death camps
• someone wanted to publish information from Nazi hypothermia experiments--two points of view: could be put to use in our own times to improve survival equipment, but this information was gotten through terrible suffering
• some people believe that we should use such information because that would give some sort of purpose to the victims' suffering

• Masked language allowed Nazis to avoid expressing their full meaning clearly so as to avoid public outcries and to avoid taking ethical responsibility
• Euthanasia is thought of as mercy killing where it is the wish of the person, the Nazis however used the term for putting people to death in a way that was humane because the person was unworthy to live
• the primary purpose of law in society is to protect those who cannot protect themselves; the law during the Nazi time did exactly the opposite
• "special treatment" in Nazi opinion meant medical killing
• objectivization means treating people as objects rather than as persons equivalent to the researcher
• inadmissability principle- information obtained illegally is considered not to exist
• in US, African Americans diagnosed with syphilis were prescribed treatment, but in a number of cases, the patients were only given placebos to see the unimpeded progress of the disease -- Tuskegee experiment
• some of us will be involved in situations where the means and ends could ethically taint technical information we are dealing with
• influence of technology on society is so widespread that technology has become a goal in itself instead of a means to pursue other social goals

• memorandum from Willy Just to SS Lieutenant Colonel Walter Rauff who was in charge of motorized equipment for the SS
• "the load", "ninety-seven thousand have been processed"
• discussion of Jews as objects/cattle
• uses impersonal language rather than personal
• tobacco industry today
• memorandum is technical objectivity taken to an extreme
• report of Prof Hirt of plans for securing skulls of Jews for racial study purposes
• people murdered for the sake of science
• flat, unemotional tone simply reporting the facts
• Viktor Brack's report for mass, unwitting castration using X-rays as a form of racial hygiene to prevent the reproduction of various people 
• Nazi race laws- Nuremberg Laws- aimed at ensuring the racial purity of the Aryan race
• science was made to serve politics
• seemingly concrete, exact technical information was derived in order to support race assumptions

• Chart of the Nuremberg Race law- racial categories/intermixing
• measuring facial features to establish racial qualities
• Aristotle would ethically condemn the Nazi regime, urge information to be used
• Kant assumes equivalence of all people
• Utilitarianism would favor using information

webpage

www.studyabroadclemson.weebly.com

Dombrowski, 38-81

Ethics...

Aristotle: virtue and personal character; defines and explains basic notions such as goodness, truth, justice, and rightness as principles for guiding our conduct.

Kant: duty to do what is right, regardless of its costs

Utilitarianism: weighs the consequences of costs of an action against benefits to calculate the most socially desirable course of action.

• Ethics, Aristotle says, is the study of what is involved in good actions.
• Ethics is what is sought for its own sake, goodness itself
• Ethical behavior must be reasoned behavior
• For Aristotle "the object of our inquiry is not to know what virtue is, but to become good men"
• Ethics often requires facing difficulties
• We must be ethical even if it means not necessarily pleasing an employer, whistle-blowing, like the Challenger

• According to Kant, all humans are endowed with a sense of moral reason.
• Categorical imperative- act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a universally binding law that everyone must act in accordance with, applying to everyone, everywhere, and always, without exception.
• Conscious recognition of one's obligation
• do what is right, regardless of competing interests or eventual outcomes
• ethics is both an individual and social matter
• whether a merchant should take advantage of an inexperienced customer
• every person must be taken as an end in itself and never as a means to an end

• Utilitarianism- ethical theories that emphasize usefulness
• do benefits outweigh cost?
• Any new drug for FDA approval must prove itself safe and effective. All drugs have side effects. The FDA has to decide if the benefits of the drug outweighs the cost.

Feminist perspectives...

• avoid sex-related terminology
• avoid stereotyping
• avoid discrimination
• complain that women's voices have been silenced
• ethics of care- focus on women's unique way of knowing and making moral judgements

Confucian ethics-- grounded in immediate realities rather than immutable, timeless absolutes

• human responsibilities are constituted in relationships, not in the isolation of a radical individual
• one's behavior in relation to immediate circumstances is valued more than adherence to abstract absolute principles
• study particular cases/examples that exemplify virtue
• each member of society has many duties and obligations defined by his or her relationships

Levinas- root of ethics is in the particularity and uniqueness of our encounters with other people, which he refers to as "the other"

makes us aware that some other thinking and feeling human exists, whose wants, values, feelings, thoughts, and responses are radically unknown to us and can never be fully anticipated

Vietnam memorial-- see one's own reflection amidst the names of the dead; person feels both attached to and ethically responsible to that other person and for that death

Gert- Morality is a public system applying to all rational persons governing behavior which affects others and which has the minimization of evil as its end, and which includes what are commonly known as the moral rules at its core.

action rather than feelings, social relations with others rather than absolute relations with god or to abstract principles

5 primary moral rules:

don't kill

don't cause pain

don't disable

don't deprive of freedom

don't deprive of pleasure

don't lie

keep your promises

don't cheat

don't commit adultery

don't steal

updated project plan

• probably would be a better idea to outline the most popular study abroad programs for various majors; after visiting the office, there are about a million different ones available
• based on brochures, there are several companies that specialize in study abroad; each company offers programs in many different countries
• when time to interview a study abroad office employee, need to ask about: CREDITS, MAJORS, South Carolina based scholarships- do they carry over (palmetto fellows, sc life)
• include a section on internships; popular and students would probably be interested
• website?

Harty 207-275

VISUALS.....

• Tables are useful for showing large numbers of specific, related data in brief space.
• When you reprint a preexisting image, you must acknowledge who you're borrowing from
• Line graphs show the relationship between two or more sets of figures
• Bar graphs show different types of information during different periods of time
• Picture graphs are popular in presentations because they add an element of entertainment to the data
• Drawings are good when you need to focus on details or relationships that a photograph cannot capture
• Flowcharts show the stages of a process from beginning to end
• Maps can be used to show the specific geographic features of an area or to show geographical distribution

PERSUASION....

• Consider whether your views will make problems for readers-- if your views are bad news for readers, report them with tact and put yourself in the readers' shoes
• Don't offer new ideas for change until your readers are prepared for them
• Your credibility with readers affects your strategy- given credibility can result from your position in an organization, acquired credibility is earned by thoughts and facts in the written message
• if your audience disagrees or is uncertain about your ideas, present both sides of the argument
• make your recommendation or opinion clear
• Put strongest points last if audience is very interested, first if not so much
• Don't count on changing attitudes by offering information alone
• testimonials are most persuasive when drawn from people with whom readers associate with
• be wary of using extreme claims and facts
• tailor your presentation to the reasons for readers attitudes if you know them
• never mention other people without considering their possible effect on the reader

PROPOSALS....

• approach writing a proposal as a problem-solving activity
• regard your audience as skeptical readers
• research your proposal carefully
• prove that your proposal is workable
• be sure it is financially realistic
• package your proposal attractively 

STYLE.....

• style illustrates your clear-headedness, your emphasis on quality, and your willingness to communicate and work with your readers
• write plain sentences to instruct the readers about a situation or process
• plain sentence- the subject should be what the sentence is about, make the doer the subject, state the action in the verb, put subject early in sentence
• given/new method- every sentence should contain something the readers already know and something new that the readers do not know