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Professionalism:
Department of Labor as conducting oneself with responsibility, integrity,
accountability, and excellence. It means communicating effectively and
appropriately and always finding a way to be productive.
Elements of professionalism
Professional communication (Written)
Put time and thought into your written communications.
Address the person to whom you are writing in a professional manner.
Use proper punctuation and grammar.
Be direct.
Be polite.
Be specific about how the person should respond to your written
communication.
Resources on Professionalism
Resources on professionalism
Forbes
Monster
Department of Labor
Professional dress
CUNY
U of Tennessee
Cornell
Academic Professionalism
Professional student
What is a professional student? Your full-time job is a being a student
Currently, your profession is a student
Being a good student is hard work and requires a significant amount of
time and effort
A formula for figuring out how many hours to spend outside of class on
studying and assignments is (Number of credit hours) X (3) = number of
hours/week. Using this formula, you can expect to spend 12 hours per
week outside of class (and lab) on studying and assignments for MGQ201;
this does NOT include attending your lab
Time Management
Be realistic about how much time it will take you to complete
assignments and to study; use the formula provided
Using this formula, a 12 credit hour courseload will require close to 40
hours of work per week outside of class.
Resources for Time Management
Note-taking
Following along with the PowerPoint or printing out class notes is NOT
the same as note-taking.
Note-taking involves processing information IN YOUR OWN WORDS,
going back and re-reading notes from class, even re-writing notes.
Resources on Note-taking
MGQ201
Introduction to Statistics and Computing
There are two components to MGQ201: computing and statistics
Computing
Computing is the use of a computer to process information or data.
Data
Statistics
Information
Decisions
Statistics
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