Connecting and Disconnecting Online

Connecting and Disconnecting Online

You connect online multiple times a day from emails, social http://www.merriam-webster.com/concise/technology 

” data-hasqtip=”73″>Technology has created many new career options, but it has also created networks of support for professionals in their field or discipline. How will you leverage http://www.merriam-webster.com/concise/technology 

” data-hasqtip=”74″>technology mastery would enhance your ability to compete in your field?

To prepare:

• Search for yourself on a search engine of your choice and review the findings. Did anything surprise you?
• Identify a working professional in the field you hope to enter one day. Google them or look on run-on sentences)

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• Writing sentences that carry little information or structural purpose or those that point out the obvious: “Great job!”

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• Writing in an indirect fashion to sound more scholarly or formal (e.g., using passive voice)

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• Using "nice-sounding" words or phrases without fully understanding their specific meaning. (If you are unsure of a word’s or phrase’s definition or meaning, look it up in a dictionary or thesaurus, or find another word to use in its place.)

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• Using unneeded words to make a point.

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• Adding unnecessary ideas or phrases to lengthen your paragraphs and sentences.

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” data-hasqtip=”75″>Respond to EITHER Prompt A or Prompt B.

Prompt A

How might professional