Class Activity 2 (July 12)

Alan De La Torriente 07/12/07
1. What is your reader's job responsibility?
Student assistant doing emails, abstracts, cataloging, duplicating, transfer and translate oral interviews in Spanish.
2. What is your reader's professional experience?
the employer graduate from psychology mayor, and is the director of the program of the South West collection library that consist on translating old publications and interviews in Spanish to English.
3. What is your reader's cultural characteristics/background?
The employer is from Hispanic heritage, Job is offered in Texas Tech University in the south west collection library
4. What is your reader's expectations about the job?
the employer will be expecting me to be able to translate document in general, from Spanish to English and vice versa and check and correct errors from previous translations.
5. What would be the reasons your reader will read your document?
I am qualified to do the job that they are offering because I cover the characteristic that they are looking for
Qualities:
Hard worker
Fast learner
Fluent in Spanish
Previous experience translating

Skills:
I was born and rise in Mexico so I have a good understanding of the language.
I have been translating from English to Spanish for a few years.
I am very familiar with computer and computer programs

Suggestions from Randi Froehich

Be more specific about the employer characteristic
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