Eng10 Comp: Occupation research overview
  finding my work

PRELIMINARY

1. Interest and Talent Inventory (get from guidance)

2. Career Decision Making System (blue pamphlets) to pick an occupational category

3. SAILS brochures: to get general information about career categories

4. Intro to mtcis.intocareers.or (polsonhs / plan7ing) http://www.safmt.org mcis

OUTLINE

What is My Work (What do I want to do with my life?)

A. Who am I?

B. What do I want?

C. What work I am choosing

D. Research on the career choice

1. Working conditions (including salary)
2. Future outlook
3. How to prepare: Training or education needed
4. The next step: Schools that provide this training

E. Conclusion

references: Occupational Outlook Handbook
MCIS online
MCIS school server user:polsonhs pass:plan7ing

1. Provide at least 10 notes
2. from at least 3 sources
the research
3. the last page of the paper should be a bibligraphy (listing all sources consulted—whether they are cited or not--in alphabetical order)

NOTE TAKING

First, skim the selection to make sure it is worthwhile to your purpose and to understand how it is
organized. Read the selection, then list the main ideas, review the material, write a paraphrase in
your own words, put quotation marks around key words or phrases, and indicate page numbers of
the quotations. (Check your bibliography card to make sure you have complete author, title, and
publication information)

USE NOTE CARDS

Write only on one side. Include the following on each card.
Subject heading (Note: This means you may have several note cards for one source) information paraphrased in retrievable prose
source informationthis can be a code to the appropriate bibliography card quoted material enclosed in quotation marks with page number.

USE APA style for bibliographies and footnotes. APA style guides are readily available on the Internet.

To cite electronic sources, use the format below. Electronic sources include aggregated databases, online journals, Web sites or Web pages, newsgroups, Web- or e-mail-based discussion groups, and Web- or e-mail-based newsletters.

Online periodical:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (2000).
Title of article. Title of Periodical, xx, xxxxxx.
Retrieved month day, year, from source.

Online document:

Author, A. A. (2000). Title of work.
Retrieved month day, year, from source.

Example of a stand-alone document, no author identified, no date

GVU’s 8th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved August 8, 2000, from
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey1997-10/

* If the author of a document is not identified, begin the reference with the title of the document.