Freelancing/Professional Writing

Dan Riordan, Instructor
Spring 2006

Freelancing Business Assignment

1. This is an individual project. Work with your assigned group only as editors.

2. The goal of the project is to define present the class with immediately useful information on one of the topics—no more than two people may work on a topic; each topic must have at least one writer.

a. health insurance—Katie Triphan

b. life insurance—Lauren Haugh

c. estimating—Kat Lee

d. rate setting—Nate Kennedy, Amber Prince

e. federal taxes 1099 and W2 Tammy Simon

f. estimated taxes—Renee Currington

g. state taxes Chris Landon

h. social security taxes—Janel Sturzl, Leah Williams

i. use of contracts—Heidi Sleep, John Reed

j. types of corporations—Matt Pankratz

k. types of proprietorships—Chelsea Rickert

l. lawyers and accountants—Kelly Perra

3. In class we will create a template.

4. Send me a proposal via email and post it on line by 6 p.m. March 8.

a. Include your basic research question about the topic,

b. the key words you will use to research it,

c. what you hope to find out about the topic

d. the audience you will write for

5. Send me and all the editing group an alpha version (email and post) by 6 p.m. March 30.

6. Final report is due on line with email to me by 6 p.m. April 4.

7. You may use video, audio, text, graphics to convey your ideas.

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