CCOM 206 Cover Letter Assignment 1

CCOM 206
Cover Letter Assignment

Description
For this assignment, you must produce a cover letter for a job or academic award.
Given your level of experience, the letter should not exceed one page. The job or
academic award for which you are applying must be real — this is an excellent
opportunity to leverage your course work for real-world purposes. In addition,
you must submit a résumé and a copy of the actual job or award posting you are
responding to.

Your mark will be based solely on the cover letter. The rationale for requiring a
résumé and a posting, even though they will not be marked, is that this
assignment is intended to help you improve not only your letter-writing skills but
also your ability to produce a document (in this case a cover letter) that integrates
information from a variety of sources (a résumé and a posting). Without the
supporting documents, there is no way of gauging how relevant your letter is.
Accordingly, failure to submit all three elements will result in penalties.

Feedback and Production of Draft 2

Your first draft will be marked and annotated, and returned to you, together with
an mp3 file containing additional comments. You must submit a second draft,
which presumably takes into account the comments you received. Each draft is
worth 5% of your final mark. You must submit a second draft even if you receive
an A on Draft 1; failure to submit Draft 2 will result in your receiving 0% on Draft
2, effectively halving your Draft 1 mark.

Steven Sacks
CCOM 206 Cover Letter Assignment 2

Submission Information
This assignment requires the submission of three documents:
• a cover letter
• a résumé
• a job or academic award posting

The assignment is to be submitted through the Assignment tab of myCourses.

The cover letter and résumé are to be submitted in a single MS Word file, with the
cover letter coming first. If, as is most commonly the case, the job or award
posting is a pdf file, that file is to be submitted separately. If the job or award
posting is only available as a screen capture, then the screen capture is to be
included in the MS Word file, after the résumé. The two scenarios are thus:

1. Job or award posting as pdf

• 1 MS Word file containing the cover letter and résumé (in that order)
Filename: ccom 206.last name, first name.cover letter.draft 1.submitted.docx
• 1 pdf file containing the job or award posting
Filename: ccom 206.last name, first name.cover letter.posting.pdf

2. Job or award posting as screen capture

• 1 MS Word file containing the cover letter, the résumé, and the posting (in
that order)
Filename: ccom 206.last name, first name.cover letter.draft 1.submitted.docx

Steven Sacks