One common theme was that these employees were representative of the corporation as a whole. Something that surprised me was the quantity of emails that these people were subjected to write. Clearly they were under a harsh workload. In the Greg reading we talked about how people get so bored that they must deal with it in unhealthy ways. To work as a call center worker seems to have a similar effect of this. The company tries to make the working environment as comfortable as possible even if the work is training.

               Research question: “How much flexibility or creativity is allowed with in the equity Research position?” “Is there a set format that someone in equity Research must follow in order to publish an advisory trading post?” “What research is allowed to be done by a Research analyst?”

               I am really interested in the position of and Equity Research analyst as this is a potential career option, I could see myself going into some day. Essentially, an equity research analyst takes a deep look into companies and then posts in depth reports about whether a company should invest in them. I really want to know what type of information can be shared within the industry. Things such as can this person visit a company in person or can this person view any reports from the company. Then I would be curious about how they put together the report to make it as productive as possible. What sort of trends do they look at when putting something like this together? Is prospectus relative to the sector the individual company is in or is it more about how the company will do relative to the entire market (ex S&P 500). I would also like to know specifically what multiples they look at when analyzing a stock or at a very least which multiples have the most weight over how they value the stock.

               After reading Brandt’s article, I was very intrigued about how I could use writing in the field of finance. Financial reports have a huge role in the way investors behave so clearly the way which these reports are written is important. I would need to interview an equity research analyst to answer these research questions. I would like to analyze at least one if not more of these equity research reports and on top of this, I would like to also observe a company and make some observations myself about how certain aspects would be viewed from an equity researchers viewpoint.

               Some questions I would ask are:

               “What does the day to in the life of an equity research analyst look like?”

               “What portion of your time is spent the field doing shadows of companies and what portion is spent at the office doing research?”

               “How much time do you spend analyzing an individual investment and what is the writing time for a report?”

               “What are the most important parts of a report that you must include?”

               “Which things do you first look at pick a company to analyze?”

               I would like to conduct an informational interview with you that I will record for class. In this project we are talking about careers that analyzed writing for a living and I have chosen the equity research position to study. Because of I would like to ask you a few questions about your career as an analyst and how you go about writing your drafts.

Is there an expected minimal length to publish something as a research paper? What qualifies a research paper as a proof?

I think for me personally, the questions that come up for writing for a living were mostly associated with Brandt’s article. It became evident to me that there is more writing that goes on behind the scenes is the business world than credit is given for. I feel as though sometimes the numbers in the business world are over valued and all the writing that goes into making these numbers useful is undermined. A possible research question I would like to ask would be, what sort of training does it take to make an employee into a proficient writer as today’s school curriculum’s tend to be highly based on math and science. I think that interviews would be helpful as first hand accounts would be incredibly descriptive. Observations would also be useful as they would allow me to make inferences about training operations my self. And finally, textual analysis would allow me to pin point specific procedures and how they affect each company/

My future career that I would really like to have is to be in some for of Mergers and Acquisitions. Writing would absolutely affect my job in a host of different ways. While a lot of my job would be analyzing numbers, effectively putting those numbers into writing would be a key portion of the job. M & A’s always have very complex, lengthy deals that are written out with extreme details and offer precise information. This will be read by a host of different people involved in the deal and most likely edited by myself and a few other associates in the deal.

               The article writing for a living took a different path than one might infer from the title. The article interviewed twelve employees that were selected based on the intense use of writing in large corporate operations, smaller legal firms, and industries such as healthcare. It was interesting as all the interviewees seemed to come from different career paths, but all had such a similar task: writing. One specific example looked at a broker within an investment firm and how he struggled to work with his coworker to perfect an offer before sending out a deal. As he tells it is impossible to do business if the proposal submitted is not spot on accurate. Personally, I had not idea that there was so much writing involved in the corporate world, often I believe that corporations are simplified down to numbers as businesses rely on monetary analysis to evaluate performance. I feel that writing sometimes isn’t given the credit it deserves, it lays hidden below all the numbers when, writing (or communication) makes up the most important aspects of business. As someone who is probably headed into the corporate world, this is article was appealing to me as it made me cognizant of the fact that writing truly is at the heart of what I will likely spend many years dedicating my life to.

Specifically, our group will be doing a conversational podcast geared towards gamblers. The reason we have chose this composition style is that I am able to speak on the economic terms to him; and he will be able to counter back with cultural and a few more of the rhetorical elements to help the listeners really understand the economics of the movie and the gambling industry as a whole.

The author uses rhetoric first and foremost as she uses statistics to prove that there must be some truth to the claims of women who have been sexually assaulted. Staggering statistics like the fact that Donald Trump our president has twenty different cases against him, yet he is able to talk his way out of all of them shows the utter power that he has. It is incredibly disheartening to look at how she shows change in the way that the exigence is viewed.

about 2 months ago, I received a passive aggressive note from my roommates that anonymously texted in our roommate group chat: “whoever had people over this weekend needs to clean up their mess. I would clean it myself but I’m tired from being kept up all weekend from the noise.” It wasn’t hard to figure out the note was directed towards me as I was the host a tailgate that weekend in our apartment and the person that wrote the note wouldn’t talk to me at the time. I’m not sure how passive-aggressive the silence approach is perceived to be but none the less it didn’t bother me. I’ve always been the type to respond to direct interaction. If I wish for something to be done I tell the person outright what I wish to have happen.

               This article was intriguing to me as I am someone that will likely end up working in the corporate culture that this article speaks of. It was very to the point about the fact that the main goal of this article was to address problems within the work place including: the fact experience is now being overshadowed by flexibility, people are taking their problems online to vent, how email culture has become harmful, and a variety of other issues in the work place. I thought this was an incredibly insightful analysis because these issues impact so many people especially in the U.S. The fact that corporations are trying to squeeze the absolute most out of their employees and people must resort to these functions is disheartening to say the least. This concept directly relates back to economics as the obvious bottom line for this sort of corporation is money and profits. While in recent years, some corporations are trying to combat this sort of culture by making there work environments far more collaborative. The email culture and online culture directly relates to how writing and money go hand it hand. Both things have unfortunately in large part replaced human interaction and because of this employee satisfaction is way down.