CSMT 2111 Informational Interviews Making meaningful connections for the future of your professional career (3) Three assignments Background & Purpose With 80% of jobs never being posted on job boards, the most efficient and successful way of gaining employment is through networking — in both the traditional sense at events and panels, but also within friend groups, industry organizations, and cold outreach through websites like LinkedIn. For this assignment, you are required to conduct (3) three informational interviews with industry professionals you are interested in learning more from. These informational interviews must be at least thirty minutes long and can be conducted either in-person, via web conference or phone. Absolutely no email exchanges will be accepted as an informational interview. The Assignment and format requirements — READ Carefully 1. Secure a 1:1 conversation with a person in the communications field in the industry of your choice. There is no requirement who this person is, they can be a recent graduate or a c-level individual. The choice of person is completely up to you. 2. Prior to the 1:1 conversation, develop a list of AT LEAST 10 questions you want to ask the individual. 3. Following the interview, submit a (1) page brief summary of the interview including the 10 questions and a summary of their response. a. the top left hand corner of the summary should read: Interviewee name: Title: Company: College Attended/major: How you connected: 4. Attach a cover page to this summary with the below header: Student Name CSMT 2111 Section (identify)/Instructor Name Writing Assignment: Cover Letter 1 – Revised 9/25/2020 What are you doing on a regular basis to set yourself apart? To network? Perhaps learn a new skill? For this assignment, you will be required to, for 45 minutes a month, engage in a professional development activity – maybe it’s a zoom panel full of professionals in your field, or a training on Lynda.com; whatever it is, you will then write a 1-page, double spaced reflection on the activity. Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: masters in information technology Managing Director working as a Managing Director User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.