For this assignment, you’ll write your own Recommended Cover Letter Resources Guide, providing a brief summary of what each resource on your guide offers that you find potentially useful to people who need to write a cover letter template to use in the future.
You’ll need to research cover-letter-writing advice, using resources from the class LibGuide https://library.fiu.edu/IDS4890(Links to an external site.), FIU Handshake https://fiu.joinhandshake.com/login, and any other source you personally find helpful, finding the three items that make up your Recommended Cover Letter Resources Guide.
For each source on your list, provide a brief but specific summary of what that resource offers that you find potentially useful to people who need to write a cover letter template to use in the future.
Example:
Resource Examples
General, vague summary
A specific, useful summary
This resource is good because there are lots of letters and examples that you can see to base yours off of.
The article was published in the Harvard Business Review and starts with examples of how to write a strong opening sentence. It was published recently, so it includes helpful guidance on digital job applications.
And finally, be sure that for each item on your Recommended Cover Letter Resource Guide that you provide the URL to that source –the URL (web address) that you provide will let your readers instantly connect to any source you list that they are curious to investigate themselves.
Checklist for your Recommended Cover Letter Resources Guide submission:
List three Cover-letter-advice related sources,
Provide a useful summary for each listed source, (This is where people often sacrifice points because their summary isn’t usefully specific.)
Provide the URL (web address) for each,
Be at least 200 words long.
