{"id":155,"date":"2015-07-19T03:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T03:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/styleforstudents\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=155"},"modified":"2015-07-21T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T21:27:55","slug":"introduction-presenting-yourself-in-person-and-online","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-styleforstudents-1\/chapter\/introduction-presenting-yourself-in-person-and-online\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction - Presenting Yourself in Person and Online","rendered":"Introduction &#8211; Presenting Yourself in Person and Online"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"node-1797\" class=\"node\">\r\n<div class=\"content clear-block\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.\r\n\u2014Pablo Picasso<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\r\nFor more than a decade, Beloit College has been releasing an annual \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/mindset\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mind-Set List<\/a>\u201d\u00a0to help define the common worldview of the incoming first-year undergraduate class. Though this popular list is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, its point is to provide \u201ccultural touchstones\u201d for university folk to help us understand what the new crop of students has and has not experienced in 18 years of life. For the class in question at the time of this writing\u2014the class of 2017\u2014the list is 60 items long and includes these entries:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Gaga has never been baby talk.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">Pa<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">yPal has replaced a pen pal as a best friend on line.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">The U.S. has always been trying to figure out which side to back in Middle East conflicts.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">A tablet is no longer something you take in the morning.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">Plasma has never been just a bodily fluid.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAs a veteran teacher, what I always appreciated about this list is that it really did make me think about the experiences of the incoming class as well as my own experiences, especially in regard to writing and technology. The above list excerpt reflects rapidly implemented and vast technological changes that visibly affect our daily lives, and both students and faculty benefit from grasping the scope of such changes.\r\n\r\nAs a modern student writer, you compose at the keyboard, and while writing a paper you might also be checking facebook, sniping an e-Bay auction, texting friends, watching youtube, running a grammar checker, answering e-mails\u2014all at the same time. Meanwhile, you may also be receiving peer feedback or e-mail commentary from your teacher before your paper is even graded, and the form of the paper might include a Powerpoint presentation or poster. In short, with high-speed technology and voluminous resources at your fingertips, you must be able to multitask, collaborate, use multimedia, and define yourself as a thinking writer who is \"plugged-in\" in every sense of the term.\r\n\r\nThis chapter is devoted to helping you become a better communicator within the context of the computer age. Sometimes this means schooling yourself in long-established fundamentals, while other times it means understanding technology as a communication toolkit. Whether you\u2019re writing an e-mail to a professor, giving a Powerpoint presentation, creating an online portfolio, or sitting down for an interview, you need to focus on how well you present yourself, both in the corporeal world and the virtual world.\r\n<div style=\"margin: 20px; background: #a9bcf5 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; padding: 10px;\">\r\n<h3>Self-Study<\/h3>\r\nFor further study, here are two websites that demonstrate both the complexities and the possibilities for those writing in the computer age:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/word.tips.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Word Tips, Tricks, and Ideas page<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daiya.mvps.org\/bookwordframes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Instructional article entitled \u201cSo You Want to Write a Book with MS Word\u201d<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"clear-block\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div id=\"node-1797\" class=\"node\">\n<div class=\"content clear-block\">\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.<br \/>\n\u2014Pablo Picasso<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>For more than a decade, Beloit College has been releasing an annual \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/mindset\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mind-Set List<\/a>\u201d\u00a0to help define the common worldview of the incoming first-year undergraduate class. Though this popular list is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, its point is to provide \u201ccultural touchstones\u201d for university folk to help us understand what the new crop of students has and has not experienced in 18 years of life. For the class in question at the time of this writing\u2014the class of 2017\u2014the list is 60 items long and includes these entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaga has never been baby talk.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">Pa<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">yPal has replaced a pen pal as a best friend on line.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">The U.S. has always been trying to figure out which side to back in Middle East conflicts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">A tablet is no longer something you take in the morning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3;\">Plasma has never been just a bodily fluid.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a veteran teacher, what I always appreciated about this list is that it really did make me think about the experiences of the incoming class as well as my own experiences, especially in regard to writing and technology. The above list excerpt reflects rapidly implemented and vast technological changes that visibly affect our daily lives, and both students and faculty benefit from grasping the scope of such changes.<\/p>\n<p>As a modern student writer, you compose at the keyboard, and while writing a paper you might also be checking facebook, sniping an e-Bay auction, texting friends, watching youtube, running a grammar checker, answering e-mails\u2014all at the same time. Meanwhile, you may also be receiving peer feedback or e-mail commentary from your teacher before your paper is even graded, and the form of the paper might include a Powerpoint presentation or poster. In short, with high-speed technology and voluminous resources at your fingertips, you must be able to multitask, collaborate, use multimedia, and define yourself as a thinking writer who is &#8220;plugged-in&#8221; in every sense of the term.<\/p>\n<p>This chapter is devoted to helping you become a better communicator within the context of the computer age. Sometimes this means schooling yourself in long-established fundamentals, while other times it means understanding technology as a communication toolkit. 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