Chapter 13: From Careers to Resumes

Since I have now officially completed the Career Research Project paper, I can say that I feel pretty good about the paper and I feel like the peer reviews and time spent in class really helped in that. I have to admit when I was submitting my paper on BBLearn I kind of freaked out when I had to put it on SafeAssign. Not because I thought I had plagiarized but because I am a very cautious person and I am always afraid I will accidentally plagiarize. Which I would hate to do which is probably why I tend to quote too much in papers. However, despite this fear I knew that I hadn't plagiarized and had quoted and paraphrase well based on the comments from my peers. I really enjoyed working on this paper and I think my favorite parts of it were the parts where I learned something I had never known or thought about before. For instance, when I wrote about the start of Christian Fiction that was all new to me, and some of the newer genres of Christian Fiction were some that I hadn't even known about before. I also really enjoyed the interview I did with author Carol Cox. Not only was she a great resource for this paper but it was a great experience for me as well. I learned about her personal experiences and background as a writer, which was very enlightening to me, and she also gave me some advice that was very encouraging. I hope that this is a beginning of a relationship between writers. All in all, I think the paper was good practice, and I learned a lot from it, not only in writing but about Christian Fiction as well. This week we started talking about the Resume, CV and Cover Letter unit. It will be good practice for me to write a cover letter and also to learn how to go about doing so. Although I recently did my resume in the spring I know that I will need to change so things around to make it look more professional. Choosing an actual job position will be good practice for when I actually have to do it when I graduate. However, I'm not quite sure what to look for. I know that there are many job opportunities for English majors but I'm not sure what I should pick if I want to be a Christian Fiction Writer, it's not exactly something you apply for. Despite that though I believe this assignment will be interesting and useful. Plus, the fact that this is a lighter, not unimportant, unit is great timing due to the fact that there is some much I need to do and study for all of my classes, before Thanksgiving and before Finals.