Communication Skills Required Foradvancing Legal
Step 1: Interview For this assignment, you will interview a professional in your field of study to gain insight into your future discourse community. Try to select someone at a senior level, with at least five years of experience working in this field, who can provide you with a broadview of the types of work and opportunities that are available to you. The interview should cover 1) your subject’s background and career path; 2) your subject’s current role and responsibilities; and 3) your subject’s insight on the types of communication skills required foradvancing inyour field.
Step 2: Outside ResearchFind a minimum of 2 outside sources(articles, journals) that give you additional information about your future discourse community –for example, what types of work or jobs someone in that field would have, or what the requirements will be for those jobs in the future. The outside sources must be citedwithinthe Discipline Investigation report. Make sure that the outside sources you add are relevant to the content you are discussing in that specific section and are meaningful. You will also provide in-text citation where you add these sources.
Step 3: Prepare ReportYour Discipline Investigation will reportthe information you learned during your interviewand outside research, providing an introduction and conclusion to share how your own expectations about the field may have changed or broadened in doing this assignment.
1. INTRODUCTION
Your introduction should include a brief overview of the discourse community you investigated for this assignment and provide a short background on why you chose your field of studyand what your expectations were before you conducted the interview and outside research.
2. INTERVIEW REPORT Background & Career Path
Why your subject was drawn to a particularcareer field?
What requirements or skills wereneeded before entering the field?
The expectations and surprises your subject had in entering thatprofession?
3. Roles & Responsibilities
. Why your subject was drawn to a particularcareer field•What requirements or skills wereneeded before entering the field
•The expectations and surprises your subject had in entering thatprofession
•The subject’s job responsibilities in his/herplace of employment
•Where your subject’s job fits in terms of the overall structure of the profession
•Types of jobs people in this profession have
•The skills and qualifications your subject’s job requires•The biggest challenges the subject faces in this job
4. Communication Skills
•The types of reading and writing required in your subject’s daily responsibilities
•The typical audience for written communication (co-workers, clients, general public, etc.)
•The communication skills your subject finds most important inhis/herrole
5. CONCLUSION
Share your thoughts on what most surprised or interested you about your interviewand research. Did it change your expectations about your chosen field? For the remainder of your undergraduate studies, what further skills, knowledge, or experience (such as an internship) will you need to develop to help prepare you for the start of your career?
6. REFERENCES
Include a list of your outside sources (at least two are required). Use the stylethat is used in your field of interest (for example, APA, MLA, etc.). Do not forget to include in text citations in the report.