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Assignment 4: Job Application Cover Letter
Due Week 10 and worth 130 points

Are you looking for employment or advancement within your current job? Completing this assignment will help you name and identify the skills and abilities that will move your career forward. Develop a Job Application Cover Letter that highlights and emphasizes why you are the person most suitable for your ideal role. Use the general writing guidelines on p. 277-278 in the text for structural and content guidance. (Examples can be found on p. 274, Figure 14-7, and on p. 279, Figure 14-8.)

The message should take the form of a business letter; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.

The job letter / application message must adhere to the following requirements:

  1. In terms of content:
    1. Highlight relevant background and job history information.
    2. Emphasize significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.
  2. In terms of format:
    1. Follow proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.
    2. Use an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.
  3. In terms of style:
    1. Use simple language.
    2. Use relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.
    3. Keep first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.
  4. In terms of mechanics:
    1. Ensure that there are no grammar or spelling errors.
    2. Eliminate wordiness and unclear sentence construction.


Your assignment must:

  • Be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.


Submitting your assignment:

  • Submit your assignment through the online course shell only.


The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Use writing process strategies to develop brief business documents, such as routine messages, bad news messages, and persuasive/sales messages.
  • Support ideas or claims in body paragraphs with clear details, examples, and explanations.
  • Organize ideas logically by using transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
  • Use sentence variety and effective word choice in written communication.
  • Write clearly and concisely using proper writing mechanics.


Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Click here to view the grading rubric.

 

 

 

 

Points: 130

Assignment 4: Job Application Cover Letter

Criteria

 

Unacceptable

Below 60% F

Meets Minimum Expectations

60-69% D

 

Fair

70-79% C

 

Proficient

80-89% B

 

Exemplary

90-100% A

1a. Highlight relevant background and job history information.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely highlighted relevant background and job history information.

Insufficiently highlighted relevant background and job history information.

Partially highlighted relevant background and job history information.

Satisfactorily highlighted relevant background and job history information.

Thoroughly highlighted relevant background and job history information.

1b. Emphasize significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely emphasized significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.

Insufficiently emphasized significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.

Partially emphasized significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.

Satisfactorily emphasized significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.

Thoroughly emphasized significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.

2a. Follow proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely followed proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.

Insufficiently followed proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.

Partially followed proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.

Satisfactorily followed proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.

Thoroughly followed proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format.

2b. Use an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely used an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.

Insufficiently used an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.

Partially used an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.

Satisfactorily used an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.

Thoroughly used an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.

3a. Use simple language.

Weight: 5%

Did not submit or incompletely used simple language.

Insufficiently used simple language.

Partially used simple language.

Satisfactorily used simple language.

Thoroughly used simple language.

3b. Use relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.

Weight: 5%

Did not submit or incompletely used relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.

Insufficiently used relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.

Partially used relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.

Satisfactorily used relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.

Thoroughly used relatively short sentences with sufficient variety.

3c. Keep first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.

Weight: 5%

Did not submit or incompletely kept first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.

Insufficiently kept first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.

Partially kept first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.

Satisfactorily kept first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.

Thoroughly kept first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines.

4a. Ensure that there are no grammar or spelling errors.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely ensured that there are no grammar or spelling errors.

Insufficiently ensured that there are no grammar or spelling errors.

Partially ensured that there are no grammar or spelling errors.

Satisfactorily ensured that there are no grammar or spelling errors.

Thoroughly ensured that there are no grammar or spelling errors.

4b. Eliminate wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely eliminated wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

Insufficiently eliminated wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

Partially eliminated wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

Satisfactorily eliminated wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

Thoroughly eliminated wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

5. Clarity, writing, and mechanics

Weight: 25%

More than 8 errors present

7-8 errors present

5-6 errors present

3-4 errors present

0-2 errors present

 

 

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