How to Chose a College/Career

The single most important thing to consider when choosing a college/career is, Is this the best option for me? Its easy to let your opinion be persuaded by others but you have to do what is best for you. Choosing a college is personal and you shouldn't go somewhere just because your friends are going there. For me personally, I chose my college based on the location and the programs they offer. Arizona State is in one of my favorite areas and I have family that live real close to the campus. Aside from this, the offer a great business program and I feel like I can succeed there. I also think its important to somewhere where you won't get distracted. Personally I am going somewhere where it may be easy to get distracted by I know that I am capable of getting my work done and staying on task while still enjoying everything the campus has to offer. Personally I'm not even sure what career I want to pursue. When I do begin looking for a career, I plan on finding something that I enjoy doing. I don't want work to feel like work, I want to enjoy everyday of my life and live it to the fullest.

Creating a Professional Resume

When creating a professional resume, the most important thing is only including information that you think employers will want to see. You do not want to include too much information. You want your resume to be concise, so keep it too a page. Its also very important to make your contact information stick out, include your email address and phone number. You want to be easily reachable for possible employers. Its very crucial to keep your resume recent, only include the past 10-15 years of your career history. Its also a very critical to show your skills in your resume, rather than just listing them. Though it can be hard to show things like "effective communicator" through your resume, it will be much more beneficial for you. When constructing a resume, avoid using empty words and mix up your word use so the reader doesn't get bored. Lastly, and one of the most important, avoid typos and grammatical errors, it needs to be perfect or else possible employers may read between the lines and draw less-than-ideal conclusions about you.

Sources:
https://www.themuse.com/advice/43-resume-tips-that-will-help-you-get-hired

https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/avoid-the-top-10-resume-mistakes

https://www.thebalance.com/top-resume-writing-tips-2063314

How-To Video

Brave New World - Dystopian Literature Audio File

In order to create my audio file, I first selected a passage that I thought was a good example of Dystopian Literature elements, I then looked back on those Dystopian Literature elements to refresh my brain on what I was going to say. I then setup my microphone and began recording. Once I was done recording, I used audacity to remove background and remove excess pauses to enhance the quality of my recording. Lastly, I chose some good instrumental music to open and close my recording, and set both of those tracks to fade in and out to create a more seamless transition.

Close Reading

Close reading, which is a thoughtful, critical analysis of a text with a goal of developing a deep understanding of the text's form and meaning, is important when reading any academic text as well as when reading things such as new articles or novels. Close reading is important because it helps the reader better understand and retain the information from the text. This is especially useful when reading things like textbooks where it is crucial to fully understand everything that was mentioned in the text. The strategy that I personally use when close reading is the SQ3R strategy, this includes Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. I naturally find myself surveying articles and textbook chapters before I read them in order to pick out the most crucial information so this strategy works very well for me. I think it is very important to have an idea of what your going to read before you read it as well as to ask yourself questions about what you just read after you finish. The absolute best way to retain information and understand a text is ask yourself questions and summarize what you just read. Close reading is extremely important when  annotating and vice versa, annotating is great way to fully understand a text. An example of an annotation that I did from "A Modest Proposal" from this unit can be seen below,

Though we as readers can get the sense that this is a satirical piece of writing from the very beginning, all doubt is removed when in the 9^th paragraph, Swift begins talking about how the young children make great food and goes into detail about how to cook them and continues this in the paragraphs that follow.

I numbered all of the paragraphs before I began so I could go back and pick out important information more easily. By then reading closely, I identified when the writing took a strong satirical tone.