Looking for a few more volunteers

["Roberta J. Kirby-Werner" <rjkirby -at- MAILBOX -dot- SYR -dot- EDU>]

Techwhirlers,

I've received many replies to my requests for listservs, newsgroups, etc.
to help my technical/professional writing students with their research
project this fall.  Thanks a bunch!  Now I'm posting one last invitation to
you folks, urging you to participate in the project.  (Since I foolishly
placed it at the end of the message, I suspect many of you may not have read
it).

I'm excerpting parts of my previous message.  Hope to hear from more of you!

Bobbi

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Excerpt:

Here's the specific request:

 **Also, if any of you in the workplace would be willing to correspond
with students preparing to enter your field or, more generally, the
workplace, please tell me who you are, what you do, and who you think
might profit from corresponding with you.**

Here's the project description:

What I hope to do is create a research project involving on-line
searches, correspondences with "expert practitioners" in a particular
field or discipline, analysis of sample documents (including e-mail)
within a field or discipline, etc.  Students will have sufficient
latitude to define projects in a way to serve their own academic and
professional interests.  This project will be one strand of a course that
also requires students to complete individual and collaborative
technical/professional publication projects.

Clearly, I'm in the early stages of thinking about this project, so I
welcome your input.  If any of you who teach have tried this kind of
thing before, please share insights.


TIA for your input.

Bobbi
rjkirby -at- mailbox -dot- syr -dot- edu