WR101 Adam Wickert

When considering your WR101 Report on a Job or Career Field assignment ask yourself:

Is there a specific issue you have identified that affects your chosen job field in a unique way? Some ideas include:

• health and safety issues
• process for entering the field (could include degrees, testing, certifications, apprenticeships)
• sub-fields that are related to a specific degree / major / field of study
• role of technology
• ethical considerations of the field (e.g. privacy, fairness and equity, access, labor and wages, etc.)

The specific issue you focus your job research on needs to be interesting to you.  You get to learn and write a report about it. A good issue:

• is interesting to you;
• is narrow enough - too broad a topic and you won't be able to cover it in your report;
• is broad enough - too narrow a topic and you won't be able to find enough information about it; and
• fits the parameters of your assignment.

Example of a topic that is too broad: Librarianship

Example of a topic that is too narrow: How language used in collection development policies at rural public libraries affects censorship of LGBTQ-related books.

Example of a topic that is just right: How librarians respond to book challenges from the local community.