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Certificate in Personnel Practice

Certificate in Personnel Practice. Lawrence Cleary and Dr. Íde O’Sullivan Research Officers for the Regional Writing Centre, UL. schema. What kind of writing do people who practice Personnel Management do?

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Certificate in Personnel Practice

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  1. Certificate in Personnel Practice Lawrence Cleary and Dr. Íde O’Sullivan Research Officers for the Regional Writing Centre, UL

  2. schema • What kind of writing do people who practice Personnel Management do? • Will the writing done by those in Personnel Management differ from that done in UL for academic audiences? • What do you do when you write? • What strategies are you using to achieve your research and writing goals? • What can we do today to prepare for what is coming?

  3. What can we do today? • Look at structure of assignments • Referencing • Text types: intros, abstracts, conclusions

  4. Writing done by students in this course • Case studies • Short dissertations • Literature reviews • Methodology sections • Anything else?

  5. Ways of Ordering • Writing Process—Planning, Drafting, (Discussing / Consulting), Revising, Editing and Proofreading. • Rhetorical Situation—Occasion for writing, writer, topic, audience and purpose. • Writing Strategies—cognitive, metacognitive, affective and social.

  6. The Rhetorical Situation • Occasion • Writer • Topic • Audience • Purpose

  7. Me, an Academic Writer? • When given an ‘academic’ writing assignment, or any kind of writing assignment, what are your immediate feelings and thoughts? • Freewrite • Write for five minutes without stopping • Private writing

  8. Satisfying Academic Audiences When someone says academic writing, what features characterize that kind of writing for you?

  9. Academic Writing • Complexity • Formality • Objectivity • Explicitness • Hedging • Responsibility

  10. An Academic Assignment • Topic? • Aspect or focus? • Instruction or comment? • Scope? • Viewpoint?

  11. Writing Prompt Given what you have learned about the assignment question, how will you approach this essay? What will you do first? What then? Include thoughts on what you think you might read? What aspects of your organization might come into your essay?

  12. Essay Writing • Purpose: • to persuade using appeals honored by academics • to explore and explain your understanding of change in the work environment

  13. Essay Writing • to explain and argue, for or against, the reductionist versus the systemic approach to future management problem solving • to use, if appropriate, your existing organisation as an example for such an application

  14. Organization and Structure • Preliminaries—Title page • Body Text • Introduction • Main body • Conclusion • End Matter—References/Works Cited page

  15. Body Text and Balance

  16. Reporting • Summaries • Quotes • Paraphrases

  17. Works Cited • Bryde, J.D. (2003) “Modelling Project Management Performance”. International Journal of Quality& Reliability Management 20(2): 229-254. • Murray, R. (2006) How to Write a Thesis, 2nd ed. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press. • Senge, P.M. (1990) The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. London: Random House. • UEfAP.com (2008) Writing: Rhetorical Functions, Comparing and Contrasting Exercise 2 [online], available: http://www.uefap.com/writing/exercise/function/compcon2.htm [accessed Aug 16 2008].

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