ENG 315: Professional Communications:

“Professional Format and Style”

How you do anything is how you do everything. – T. Harv Eker (from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind)

This course is a mixture of learning a new format (business style) and adapting your English language skills to a different audience. Business communication relies equally on format (how you communicate) and content (what you say).

Respond to ONE of the following:

1. Discuss the Eker quote as it pertains to your professional experience and the material for Week 2
2. Find a quality resource that discusses the importance of format OR find a quality support that proves format does not matter in the context of the professional environment.

BUS 437: Project Procurement Management:

“Effective Management.” There are three (3) recommendations for effective management of projects in concurrent multiphase environments: Organizational System Design, System Implementation, and Managing in Concurrent Engineering.

• Which of these three (3) recommendations for effective management would you or do you use most often? Why?

HIS 104: American History to 1865:

For this week, read chapters 1 (skim section 1.2) and 2 (skim section 2.2) and look over my resources in the Instructor’s Insights(ATTACHED). (We’ll read chapter 3 next week.) Then, answer the following:

• Briefly describe the separate cultures of Africa, Europe and the Americas before Columbus arrived.
• What specifically was going on in Europe at this time? Why did they set their sights on America?
• What did the Spaniards run into when they “discovered” the Americas? How would it have shocked their European Christian sensitivities?
• What did you learn from this “Atlantic World”?