Solely based on the exceeding statistics it would appear that professional and creative writing fails to provide a guarantee of employment once a degree has been obtained. Research conducted by Graduate Careers Australia (2014), emphasises these figures by illustrating where graduates progress to within specialist employment four months after completion of their degree. The results demonstrated 60.6% of graduates from a language and literature based degree maintained full time employment after graduation (Graduate Careers Australia, 2014, 02). This was almost a 5% decline from graduates who had obtained full time employment in 2012 (GCA, 2013, 02). From the remainder of graduates, 24.7% had obtained part time or casual work and 14.7% were still seeking employment (GCA, 2014, 02). From the graduates who obtained degrees in the language and literature sector, 41.1% enrolled in further full time study after graduation (GCA, 2013, 01). These statistics are focalised on specialist careers within the industry. However, creative and professional writers in the 21st century are obtaining more work through freelancing, while maintaining a part time job through embedded employment. Embedded employees are viewed as outside of the language and literature discipline and freelancers are recognised as unemployed, therefore displaying the statistics as underreported. Modern practioners who are self-employed, freelance writers depend on a ‘portfolio career’ (Inkson 2008, 549) to gather their
The National Writing Project is one of the oldest teaching networks in the United States. This program uses the principles of good writing instruction as a way to encourage teacher development. In chapter 6 of Awaking the Sleeping Giant one learns that today more than ever, schools must cultivate teacher leadership. This can be accomplished through The National Writing Project by providing teachers the voice and ownership they need and therefore aids in influencing teacher leadership strategies.
The teacher understands effective writing and teaches students to write effectively in a variety of forms and for various audiences, purposes and contexts.
Society today places so much emphasis on attending a liberal arts college in order to get a degree and succeed in life. The only problem is that liberal arts colleges do not gurantee a job after graduation. Students are going into school expecting to graduate and be able to find a job, but then they find out it is not that easy. The value on liberal arts education is too high compared to the benefits. Results of interviews showed that after getting a job, the employee then had to learn on the job how to use the proper writing style required. Future research should look towards toning down the specialization of writing programs in higher education in order to cover a broader background and better prepare students.
There was once a time, l was proud to call myself an Australian, unfortunately that feeling of pride is slowly dwindling away. There are many reasons why I find myself, becoming dissatisfied with the direction that my country is heading. We can start with the abysmal political system, or how we haven't legalised medical marijuana, or at least ran test on the effectiveness of it, or that we are so politically correct, that we can no longer have a diverse array of opinions within society, If you don't follow the group you're labelled a racist or bigot, there was a time that we claimed that we were a multicultural country, now every time I open any form of social media there is someone talking about , signing a petition
Poor writing skills have become a major problem in corporate America. Many of today's employers say that good writing skills are essential not only for existing employees but also for new hires (Simkin, Crews, & Groves, 2012). In a survey of 120 U.S. Corporations, nearly a third of all employees have poor writing skills. Who is to blame for the lack of writing skills of Americans today?
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Another possible careers that I would want based on my senior project topic being based on fictional writing is a songwriter or a columnist due to my ability to write songs and sing as well as provide songs for other artists to sing and the interest to writing my life experiences and contributing them to a newspaper or magazine on a consistent basis with people who read from the certain newspaper knowing me based on my column or the songs that I will write for other artists or for
“Number 13660, please come forward,” said the guard taking roll call in our unit. “You have mail.”
As a writer, I find myself getting lost. Typically, when I go to start writing I hit a brick wall. It’s as if all my thoughts suddenly escape my mind and I draw a blank. It takes me forever to conjure up some form of a thesis and then takes even longer to figure out what I should write to support it in a way that makes sense. Then, attempting to find a way to organize my ideas and put them together in cohesive paragraphs seems like an impossible task in the moment. It is not uncommon for me to get flustered and just throw something down on the paper because I get anxious seeing how much work is left to do. If I end up going back to read it over prior to submission,
Society has begun to recognize the unreality of the current drinking laws, and how it has a negative effect on college students as well as teenagers. In protest of these drinking laws, a movement known as the Amethyst Initiative was created to push for a lower drinking age. This organization consists of 136 colleges that have signed up to show support for their cause. These are people who work first hand with college students whose lives consist of underage drinking. They all agree that the age should be lowered as all it does is put the students at risk.
With a degree in XXX Masufa should have no difficulty with the creative writing aspects of her proposed course of study. Since 200X, Masufa has completed several courses of study with XXX. Her commitment to this is impressive as she has been working at the same time. Initially her study was in the area of XXX Latterly, she has studied which XXX
Currently, whether it is any course that necessitate me to turn in literature, I use the opportunity as a way of becoming better at communicating through my papers. Unfortunately, a dramatic change in my writing hadn’t took place, but I wish had the chance to find a passion for it and pursue it. After all, at no time did I overcome my writing and still feel lost in a
Desalination is making dirty or unsanitary water potable. One way to desalinate water is by using a seawater desalination plant (taking the salt out of sea water) how this works is by using an intake pipe which travels to the plant from the ocean, then there is a screening plant which takes out large things like seaweed, then they add substances to help with the coagulation to bind smaller particles together to create larger ones to go to the next stage which is the dual media tanks. Dual media tanks are large tanks that have a layer of coal and a layer of sand the water filters through these layers filtering out large particles, then it goes through a large cartridge that contains little straws with small holes at which the water is pushed
1. Chapter 4 “The First Two Years: The Social World” section “Emotional Development” discusses the significance of variety of early emotions that humans have the experience in their life. The most common and basic forms of emotions that infants present as their age is pain and pleasure. Throughout their life, they develop mentally and physically, as well as learning more emotions that enable them to show expressions, reactions, and reasons that trigger those reactions (Berger, 130) During toddlerhood, between the ages of two and up, emotions are strengthened, for example, toddlers’ laughter and cries are more apparent and amplified. Together with their anger and fear becoming less frequent but directed towards experiences that are terrifying and infuriating. In addition, toddlers often have temper tantrums, “when something angers them, they might yell, scream, cry, hit, and throw themselves on the floor” (Berger, 130) Toddlers’ temper tantrums can even cause more tantrums or worsen the situation if a response from an adult or is negative, like out of anger or teasing the child.
There is a multitude of jobs and careers I want to have, as some of you may know, but I think we’re only allowed to talk about one. However, there is one job in particular that I know that I’ll do, whether I’m paid for it or not. That job is writing. Not only do you need language skills, but I believe that you will need creativity and an immense amount of patience in order to be a successful writer of any sort.