Evaluating

Writing &
Writing as
Punishment
Dr. Will Kurlinkus
Top 8 Résumé Tips
1. Build a picture of yourself doing the hard and soft
skills from your job ad. Highlight what the reader is
interested in.
• Don’t use full sentences (no full sentences=no periods)
• Start with bulleted active verbs that match key terms from the
add
• Think transfer statements, what you can provide them
• Quantify: If you can add a number, add a number: show a
result of your experience
• Bad: Gained experience in public speaking.
• Better: Presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual
Technical Conference.
• Best: Presented at 3 conferences, including an invited lecture on
reservoir evaluation at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual
Technical Conference.
• Active Verbs at
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Examples
• Process Engineering Intern, Summer 20XX Chevron Phillips
Chemical Company, LLC, Sweeney, TX
• Rerouted an atmospheric vent to flair header using ASPEN and
FLARENET to stimulate and model new header
• Performed various projects dealing with the everyday problems faced
in an ethylene plant
• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates, Summer
20XX University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• Learned valuable laboratory techniques and safety through joining a
research team of graduates and post-doctoral students
• Carried out batch reactions, collecting data through Camille and MS
Excel
• Presented research through MS PowerPoint and a final poster
presentation
• Participated in 5-week course on the Code of Ethics for Engineers
 Your Turn

-Write a description for two of your best experiences

for your job ad.
-However, make one a class/class project
What Are Our
General Reflections
& Feelings About
Grading and
Feedback—What’s
It’s Purpose, How Do
We Do It? Should
everyone just get an
A?
Do You Read
Instructor
Feedback?
What’s Too Much
or Too Little?
What’s Important
to You?
How are writing
and testing
related? Can we
test for writing
skills?
5 Lessons for New
Teachers About
How to Comment
on Writing Usefully
Writing as
Punishment?
Have You
Experienced It?
Why do they
exist?
Punishing Children with
Writing—Spencer Schaffner
• Biopower: The ways social institutions shape/norm one’s body
to fit one’s work/schooling: “writing has the ability to overpower
the will of the writer.”
• Q. How does biopower intersect with school literacy
elsewhere?
• Banking Model of Literacy: you learn something (or write
something in this case) and it enters you and changes you.
• “The core belief that as we write on the page, what we
write is written back on us….”
• Q. Is punishment attached to learning and literacy in other
ways in school?