The homework is to interview an assigned classmate via class e-mail, and develop a professional profile for that student.  The professional profile should summarize the students' career and/or academic history, career and/or academic goals, and writing skills, including tools related to writing.   Finally, the interviewer needs to clarify how the student will or does use technical writing. The assignment has two parts:

Profile, Part I (Questions)
Prior to interviewing your partner, develop a list of interview questions that addresses the above guidelines.  (Consider purpose and audience as you develop your questions.  As stated in the reading, you want to ask specific questions to gather the information you need.  You should not ask generalized questions like "What is your academic history?" or "What are your writing skills?".  The goal is to not only gather information, but gather targeting information that can be used to develop a thoughful, relevant profile.)   The final list of questions should include 8 - 10 questions. However, you may end up developing a longer list of questions than you eventually need.  These questions must be submitted to the instructor for approval prior to submitting Part II of the Profile.

See Submitting Work.

Profile, Part II (Web Page)
Once you have the information you need, you should put together the professional profile.  Make sure to include a title, the summary of information, author's name (you), date and any other relevant information.  Then convert the profile to web page format.  The readings include three different ways to create a web page. (See The Quick and Easy Guide to Building Web Pages.)  While I will not be grading your skill at web design, I will be looking for a profile that is readable.

You may include visuals (photos or graphics) if you would like.  If so, remember to use .jpg or .gif formats for the web page.  Do NOT include addresses, phone numbers or personal e-mails in the profile.  Limit other personal information to that related to the guidelines. (For an example, see my profile on the Instructor Info page.)

You have two options for submitting this assignment: 1) Upload your Profile to your own personal account.  (See The Quick and Easy Guide to Building Web Pages) Then e-mail me your URL; 2) Send the web files and related graphic files to me for uploading to our Projects page.  (I would like you to try uploading your website directly first.  You can always have me upload the files later if you get stuck.)

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