1. Lead-in
A. What is a portfolio? port·fo·li·o (port-fōlē-ō′, pōrt-) n. pl. port·fo·li·os
Which definition corresponds?
1. A portable case for holding material, such as loose papers, photographs, or drawings.
2. The materials collected in such a case, especially when representative of a person's work: a photographer's portfolio; an artist's portfolio of drawings.
3. The office or post of a cabinet member or minister of state.
4. A group of investments held by an investor, investment company, or financial institution.
B. What does a portfolio include?
Let’s draw a mind map and see what is what.
C. Do you know the meaning of the words: personal documentation, corporate documentation and external documentation and internal communication? What documents do you think you need for your future job?
Personal documentation - application form, business card, letters of employment correspondence \ enquiry letter, resume / CV (Curriculum Vitae), application, electronic job hunting, cover letter (Support for Application).
Corporate documentation – e-mail, different business letters, memo, proposals, instructions
External documentation – reports (formal \ informal), articles (abstracts \ annotation)
Internal communication – poster presentation, presentations (conferences).
D. Do you think a person needs a portfolio?
E. What is the aim of a portfolio?
F. Do you think the content corresponds to what a portfolio should be? If not, what would you exclude or include?
G. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a portfolio?
H. Do you need a portfolio?
2. Portfolio Development – each student works on his\her own portfolio, on the basis of the content (including title page, contents page). Title page sample – pg. 11.
3. Portfolio Evaluation- arrange focus groups (small group, role-play to evaluate and comment other group member CDPs.
Tomsk polytechnic university
GEOLOGY AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING INSTITUTE
DEPARTMENT ________________________________
COMMUNICATION DISPLAY PORTFOLIO (CDP)
NAME: ________________________________________
SPECIALIZATION: __________________________________
UNIT 2
E-MAIL is a medium which has revolutionized the way in which we communicate with each other. E-mail has become a large part of modern communication, particularly in business. The world has become much smaller now that we have the ability to send and receive email messages over great distances at an incredible speed. Survey show that Email “is by far the most frequently used and highly prized feature of the Internet”(Specter, Michael, “Your Mail Has Vanished”. New Yorker 16 Dec. 1999: 95-104.)
PURPOSE: how to use e-mails as effectively as possible; be able to express oneself more clearly in the professional sphere
OBJECTIVE: students will become good email citizens in writing traditional forms of communication and knowing the etiquette to ensure good manners in email.