Due Date: 9:25am on Tuesday, February 9.

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to practice genre analysis and writing. The genre of Resume is one that probably some of you have already written for real, and likely all of you will need to write at some point in the future.

Steps

1. Choose a fictional character. You will be creating an imaginary version of their resume.
2. Research resumes! This can be as simple as googling “how to write a resume” or “resume examples” and looking at some of the results. What do you notice? What do they all have in common? What differences or variations do you see?
3. Using what you learned, make a resume for your fictional character.

Some Notes/Tips:

• Make up anything that isn’t already established about the character.
• You can choose to write this resume at any point in your fictional character’s life. (Maybe I write a resume for Harry Potter, but it’s long after the HP books take place and he’s applying for his job as an Auror.)
• It doesn’t have to totally make sense for the imaginary world. For example, probably nobody applies with a resume to be one of the Avengers or part of the Justice League. But you could pretend, and write a superhero resume.

You may want to ask, “How long does it have to be?” or “How many things do I have to list?” or “What spacing/font size/formatting do you want?” You will determine all of these based on your research into resume writing.

Remember: the content is made up, but we are still figuring out and obeying the rules of the genre. Grading will be out of 2 points: 2 points for complete, 1 point for incomplete, 0 points if you don’t turn anything in.

Please post your imaginary resume here on the course site when you are done. Use the Category “Student Work” and the subcategory “Student Work: Beginning of Semester.” For help with posting, watch this video.

You can post your resume by copy/pasting it into a post, or by clicking on the “Add Document” button in the editor. Which one you choose will determine some of your formatting choices, since copy/pasting Word Doc formatting into a WordPress post without changing anything can often look odd.