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Career Services can help you find jobs, write resumes, and so much more.

Contact Michael Despeaux for more information.

Profiles for hundreds of occupations including sections like What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

Library employees are here to help you with your research, but if you need help with writing, you may go to the LAC (Learning Assistance Center). You may also get help citing sources within your paper.

The purpose of this style guide is to offer students and faculty members a place to easily access information about writing within an academic setting. It is our hope that students and faculty alike use this resource for its ultimate purpose – to support student writing across the curriculum.

Effective oral and written communications skills are necessities for success in all areas of the modern world. Opportunities for advancement in today’s global markets increase significantly for individuals who master the art of clear communication. The successful writer, therefore, must possess skills sufficient to
create informative, insightful analysis;
effectively manipulate language in the compilation of documents such as resumes, portfolios, proposals, reports and letters;
correctly research and document information; and
carefully edit and produce error-free copy.

Teachers who use writing in their classes often discover that they encounter the same mistakes in student writing again and again. These patterns of error are common, and the comments students receive on their writing seem like a broken record!

You can learn to avoid these common mistakes, though. Listed below are seven grammar/mechanics/usage mistakes that students often commit in their writing (this is by no means an exhaustive list – it’s simply some of the mistakes that are seen most frequently.). Beside each is the section letter and number for the section of your handbook, A Writer’s Reference, where these issues are addressed. (For more information and a longer list of common mistakes, see the results of Andrea Lunsford’s study at this website.)