Recruitment: Writing Assignment 2015

Assignment Overview
This assignment has two parts:
1. Proofreading
2. Analyzing videos and describing their teachings

Scoresheet
Assignment Part

Score

Part 1: Proofreading

___/15

Part 2: Analyzing videos and describing

their teachings

___/35

TOTAL

___/50

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Part 1: Proofreading
Overview:
The purpose of this part of the assignment is to test your ability to proofread
paragraphs of text for errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and
usage.

Instructions:
There are 15 issues in the below three paragraphs of text. Using the Text Highlight
Color tool
, highlight these 15 issues as you identify them. Note your task is not
to rewrite the paragraphs of text. If completing this exercise in printed form, use the
margin or the space between lines of text to indicate how you would correct the
error. Otherwise, add comments or Tracked Changes to indicate the changes you
would make.

Exercise
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Many people experience firsthand how spending to much time at work can
negatively impact their personal life. conversely, being pulled by too many
demands from home can make it hard to concentrate on work. Whether there's too
much focus on work, or too little, when your work life and your personnel life feel
out of balance, the results is stress. Feeling out of balance is hard to except.
Having a healthy work/life balance is important, and the balances that's right for
you won't necessarily be right for your coworker. And it may not be right for you
next year either. Anyone can create a different idea of what the perfect work/life
balance should be. But it will inevitably be a dynamic concept, since it has to
change many times throughout life, as the circumstances of life and work change.
With an internal centre that is, when people fell in control they have a sense of
well-being. A person with an internal center of control tend to work hard and
persevere to get what they want. In general, people with an internal center of
control engage in activities that will improve there situation and develop their
knowledges, skills, and abilities.

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When you begin to assess your work-life balance, your really analyzing whether you
have an acceptable share of time between your needs and those of the others
around you. Of course, you need to do this for your work life and your private life, or
you won't be able to find the right balance for you at this time in your life. One of
the most important aspects of work/life balance are that you'll be able to get the
most out of every aspect of your life

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Part 2: Analyzing videos and describing their teachings
Overview
The purpose of this part of the assignment is to test your ability to analyze a video
and write text describing the learning objective of the video and the key steps the
instructor took to arrive at that objective. In Part2a, youll write text for a GUI-based
video and in Part2b, youll write text for a coding-based video.

Part 2a: GUI-Based Video

Instructions:
Play the sample video (66723.mp4) and familiarize yourself with its content. For
ease of reference, the voice over for the video is also provided as a transcript within
a separate document called 66723.doc. Note the overall message of the video, and
pay attention to the key tasks or steps being demonstrated. You may need to rewatch the video several times, as well as referencing the transcript.
Exercise
Identifying the key instruction in a video
What is the key instructional purpose of this video? Complete this single sentence
to describe the key task being undertaken by the instructor, Jamie Campbell, in the
video.
In this video, Jamie Campbell

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Video Summary
What does the video demonstrate? Write a paragraph briefly summarizing the
video, describing the task and steps covered in the video. Your completed
paragraph should be no longer than 100 words.

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Part 2b: Code-Based Video
Instructions:
Play the sample video (61915.mp4) and familiarize yourself with its content. For
ease of reference, the voice over for the video is also provided as a transcript within
a separate called 61915.doc. Note the overall message of the video, and pay
attention to the key tasks or steps being demonstrated. You may need to re-watch
the video several times, as well as referencing the transcript.
Exercise
Single-line Video Description
What is the key instructional purpose of this video? Complete this single sentence
to describe the key task being undertaken by the instructor, Charles Robinson, in
the video.
In this video, Charles Robinson

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Video Breakdown
What does the video demonstrate? Write a paragraph briefly summarizing the
video, describing the task and steps covered in the video. Your completed
paragraph should be no longer than 100 words.

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