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Sample Calendar, Five Week Course

(This calendar assumes 100-minute class sessions four days per week.)


Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Week 1
Introduction Chapters 1 and 7; MTF (memo to file); Chapter 7, Exercise 1 Chapter 8 and MTF; Chapter 7, Exercise 2; Myers-Briggs session Workshopping resume; MTI (memo to instructor)
Week 2
Chapters 5 and 9; MTF; brainstorm issues for project; draft resume; Career Services session Chapters 2 and 3; MTF; committee assignments Library session and Chapter 7, Exercise 3; draft thank-you letter to Career Services Resume and MTI; committee work
Week 3
Career Services letter; draft thank-you letter to Library; MTI; Chapters 10 and 12 and MTF Library letter and MTF; committee work Chapter 11 and MTF; committee work Proposal package due; MTI
Week 4
Draft of employment letter; committee work Committee work Committee work; workshop employment package Employment package due; committee work
Week 5
Progress reports by committees Progress reports by committees Committee work Wrap-up; committee report; portfolio of employment letters; portfolio of MTF and MTI; final MTI


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The print version of the Instructor's Manual for The Writing of Business
was written by Robert P. Inkster and Judith M. Kilborn for Allyn and Bacon.
This web version of the manual was coded by Judith M. Kilborn.

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