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My Majer is MIS (Management information system)
Indeed, as the prompt says (which I reiterated during last week’s Lecture), you are researching 2-3 specific courses
in order to clarify some illustrative curriculum, to get into some interesting discussions with discipline-specific knowledge and language,
that help the reader understand some of the depth of your studies, some of the interesting topics/arguments/assignments, etc. 
The selling points here are A) the fascinating and smart material/work going-on in your major (and perhaps in the real world) and
B) your ethos of authority and enthusiasm for this kind of knowledge, problem solving, etc.  You know what you’re talking about.
If you feel a little out of your depth at all, this is where research comes in.  Integrate some of your sources into the paper/letter.
The other part of the prompt is to research and focus on 2-3 professors.  An interesting introduction and discussion about some specific “leaders”
of your department will give tremendous insight about the department and the work being done in the field.  Look a

t their CVs,
their Bios, etc.  One student asked about LinkedIn. Sure. Good idea.  Just make sure you source your evidence, whether that’s
the faculty bio on the department website, or LinkedIn, or some other website.  You may know some of this stuff from interacting
with these faculty members, these professors.  Do your best.  I will talk more about this on Wednesday.
Again, with both the course work and the professors, find specific examples of the work, allowing you to discuss, in detail, some of the interesting
and academic quality work that you all are doing in this major/discipline/field. 
~3 pages of notes for all of this research, but feel free to exceed that.  This is important research/evidence for this letter.
I need to continue to stress that.  The notes can be double-spaced.  
Remember to include in this 2/22 Journal the short work-in-progress Works Cited (links, names of some of your sources — a short list).
This is in addition to the ~3 pages.  This is all on the prompt.  
2/22 Journal must include a focus on this research and documentation: