Blog 2  

Resume

I am applying to the position of timber manger. I feel like I would be the perfect candidate for this job.  I work well in groups or alone on individual projects.  My back ground is in the field of natural recourse sciences and a bachelor’s degree from Washington state university. My passion is the outdoors, so I will take pride in my work with regards to timber management.  I Have been trained in remote sensing and the program GIS, along with in field measurement techniques.

Reading response

The first chapter has a few good points to make but the most important one I feel is the guidelines. The first guideline is to be relevant. Staying on topic is a key thing to do when writing; it keeps the reader interested and easier to follow when the topic on hand is relevant to the paper. When people start going all over the place with their ideas it makes it hard to understand and the reader may get frustrated. Not to say you can’t go off on a tangent but it needs to be tied back into the paper.  The second guideline that came up was to measure the information.  Just the right amount of information must be presented because too much or little can kill a conversation and the same go for writing.  The last guideline is to be clear.  When writing one must think about all the questions that will be raised and try to answer them in the paper because unlike conversation you can’t go back and tell the reader the answer to a clarity issue.

Chapter two dealt with verbs and moving them more toward the beginning of a sentence to give the sentence more power and to remove wordiness. Streaming the sentences to make them more concise and to the point will help with clarity issues as brought up in chapter one.

Revise

·         The first chapter has a few good points to make but the most important one I feel is the guidelines. The first guideline is to be relevant

·         The first chapter makes good points, but the most important are the guidelines. The first guideline is to be relevant.