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Showcased on:
codicurtis.weebly.com

Master Rsum

Education:
o B.A. in English, Creative Writing Emphasis
All courses were writing intensive
All courses emphasized "critical thinking"
Creative writing courses focused on critiquing peer drafts
Therese Muller Memorial Award for a short story

o Five years of Spanish in high school

Work:
o BloodCenter of Wisconsin Summer 2012 & 2013
improved my use of Excel
familiarity of office environment and project management
wrote two ads for the Diagnostic Labs' Marketing dept.

o College Library 2014 Spring Semester
experience in customer service
learned shelving and circulation system
experience working overnight hours (12-8 A.M.)

Other Experience:
o Iowa Young Writers' Workshop Summer 2009
Highly selective two week program dedicated to creative writing
Immersed in a community of writers
Run as a precursor to college

o Volunteered at an elementary school library Spring 2011 & 2012
shelved books, checked books in
deleted materials from library system
set up a display for a new season

o Relevant Interests
conceptual planning
reading and writing
organizing files and documents

o Experience abroad Summer 2012
Tour of Southern China
Immersion in business culture

Targeted Cover Letter
Codi Curtis
22 Langdon #213
Madison, WI 53703
cwcurtis@wisc.edu

Web Courseworks
7617 Mineral Point Road #301
Madison, WI 53717

Dear Hiring Manager:

I am writing to apply for the position of creative writer / interactive designer listed on
jobsinmadison.com. I know that Web Courseworks, Ltd. creates a number of diverse and helpful
e-learning activities such as Score Your Pour and Play True Challenge, and I believe my
educational and personal background would be of value to both you and your clients.

I have graduated this year from UW-Madison with a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing.
While the degree is a holistic liberal arts degree, the basis of my coursework was both analyzing
and creating literature. My experience with literature is the foundation of what I can offer as a
writer to you and your clients. Even before college, I have spent my years of schooling studying
the basics and nuances of storytelling, which will be indispensable to writing the plot of your
products.

In 2009 I was accepted in the Iowa Young Writers' Workshop (IYWS) out of over 400 other
candidates. The intensive two-week program required regular contribution of the students' own
creative work and feedback for their peers. The workshops and other team-building activities
demanded frequent collaboration and peer support in order to foster a healthy exchange of ideas
and experience working with others on important projects. With such early familiarity in a
creative community, I can bring project management and teamwork skills to aid your work on e-
learning activities.

Additionally, I have experience working on professional projects. I updated test descriptions and
composed two case study summaries for marketing the BloodCenter of Wisconsin's diagnostic
labs to the healthcare community. Along with writing these documents, I was responsible for
gathering the correct information needed and sending my work to directors and supervisors for
revision. My work here has afforded me a real-life understanding of office and interdepartmental
collaboration that I can utilize at Web Courseworks.

You will find a full list of the qualifications in the rsum enclosed with this letter. Also enclosed
is my writing submission. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,


Codi Curtis
Targeted Rsum

Education:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
o Bachelor of Arts Degree
o English with an Emphasis in
Creative Writing
o Therese Muller Memorial
Award 2011
o Graduated: May 2014

Iowa Young Writers' Workshop
o Selected community of young
writers
o Taught by MFA fellows as a
precursor to college
o Collaborative work such as a
crash course in playwriting
o Graduated: July 2009

Relevant Coursework:
Creative
o Creative Writing: Beginning
Poetry
o Fiction & Poetry Workshop
o Intermediate Fiction Workshop
o Advanced Poetry Workshop
o Advanced Fiction Workshop
o Directed Creative Writing
(Senior Thesis)
Technical
o Structure of English
o English Grammar in Use
o Writing in the Workplace

Media-based
o Intro to Mass Communication
o Radio, TV, & Film as Mass
Media
o Intro to Media Production

Work History:
College Library 2014
Spring Semester
o helped customers locate books,
rooms; assisted with account
inquiries
o learned shelving and
circulation system
o experience working overnight
hours (12-8 A.M.)

BloodCenter of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee WI
Summer 2012 & 2013
o development of project
management skills by working
on test descriptions
o familiarization with Excel
through hours of data entry
(~30 hrs/week)
o wrote ads for the Diagnositc
Labs' Marketing dept.

Relevant Interests:
Creative writing
Drawing, Drafting, Doodling
Reading (mostly literary novels and literary theory)
Conceptualizing storylines and drawing simple maps of story settings
Gameboy experience (involves simple, electronic storylines)
Selected Works

The Champeen of Michigan and His Peculiar Leg
Word Count: 243
County: Marinette County
City: Marinette, WI

In the heyday of logging, lumberjacks invaded North Woods towns every spring. Logger Otis
Terpenning recalled that after four or five months in winter camps, we were so full of life and
activity we just had to expand or die. One crew was always ready to fight any other crew.

One memorable brawl happened in Michigan. Bat Meagher, a hard-boiled and hairy giant from
Marinette, and his fighting skills were, lauded all across northern Wisconsin. Of course, rumor
arose of his better: logger-turned-bartender Pete Curtis, the Champeen of Michigan. One
spring, Meagher walked over 20 miles to Curtis's tavern to see how hard this bum [was].

Crowd waiting, the fight began immediately. Equally matched, both men were quickly bruised
and bloodied. Yet Meagher managed to lift Curtis and throw him over a cast iron heater. The
blow momentarily winded the Champeen, but he doggedly pulled himself up and charged toward
Meagher with renewed energy.

Meagher fell back in amazement and called for a halt. When Curtis rose from the floor, his right
leg was turned completely around, the foot facing backwards. Meagher forfeited: Any man
that'll look for more with a broken leg is too much for me. I'm through. He bolted out the door
and disappeared down the tote road.

Unbeknownst to Meagher, Curtis had lost his lower leg in a logging accident. The resulting
prosthetic had twisted around during their fight. History does not record whether Meagher ever
learned the truth.

Adapted from The Champeen of Michigan and His Peculiar Leg
Posted in Bizarre Events on November 4, 2010
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/odd/archives/004367.asp













"For the Love of Karl Marx ...!"
Words: 252
County: Milwaukee County
City: Milwaukee, WI

In 1910, Emil Seidel became the first socialist mayor in the U.S. He took office in Milwaukee
with a wealth of progressive ideas for reform--and passionate adversaries who opposed them. He
quickly found himself battling his predecessor's appointees politically, including the city's police
chief, fire chief, and health commissioner. Then his own supporters turned against him.

When he had to hire a commissioner of public works, Seidel looked further than the U.S.
Milwaukee socialists who had helped elect him; they felt betrayed, and their support for Seidel
began to wane. Without an outside expert to take the low-paying job, Seidel finally appointed
Harry Briggs, a local school teacher, "who proceeded to hand out jobs until the city service
commission called a halt."

Seidel himself had trouble fending off the many requests for patronage jobs. Disappointed
applicants, mostly fellow socialists, often went over his head to party leader and city councilman
Victor L. Berger. During a tense council meeting, opponents reportedly heard Berger shout into
the telephone to a rejected supporter, "For the love of Karl Marx, I didn't promise every man who
voted the Socialist ticket a job in the city hall!"

Years later Seidel told a reporter that his time in office included many missed opportunities due
to his lack of patience with people who disagreed with the socialist platform. "We should have
reasoned with them more," he admitted, adding sarcastically, "they might have been converted;
not all of them, of course, but some who were not absolute dumb-heads."

Adapted from For the Love of Karl Marx...!
Posted in Curiosities on March 4, 2010
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/odd/archives/004100.asp

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