Sources for career information for English majors
The following websites and books provide rich information regarding the kinds of careers open to English majors.
Advertising Council. www.adcouncil.org.
American Association of Advertising Agencies. www.aaaa.org.
American Association of Christian Schools. www.aacs.org.
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges. www.aacc.nche.edu.
American Copy Editors Society. www.copydesk.org.
American Society of Journalists and Authors. www.asja.org.
American Society of Magazine Editors. www.magazine.org.
American Society of Newspaper Editors. www.asne.org.
Association for Women in Communications. www.womcom.org.
Association of American Publishers. www.publishers.org.
Association of Authors and Publishers. www.authorsandpublishers.org.
Association of National Advertisers. www.ana.net.
Black Women in Publishing. www.bwip.org.
Computer Press Association. www.computers.org.
Council for American Private Education. www.capenet.org.
DeGahan, Julie and Stephen Lambert. Great Jobs for English Majors, 2nd Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Institute for Public Relations Research and Education. www.instituteforpr.com.
Investigative Reporters and Editors. www.ire.org.
Magazine Publishers of America. www.magazine.org.
Modern Language Association (MLA). www.mla.org.
Montreat College English Department. “Career Bank: Email Contacts to former English graduates of Montreat College.”
National Association of Broadcasters. www.adweb.com/adassoc24.html
National Association of Independent Schools. www.nais-schools.org.
National Association of Science Writers. www.nasw.org.
National Business Association. www.nationalbusiness.org.
National Council for Marketing and Public Relations. www.ncmpr.org.
National Council of Teachers of English. www.ncte.org.
National Writers Union. www.nwu.org.
Non-Profit Management Association. www.cnmsocal.org.
O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2005.
Poets and Writers. www.pw.org.
Public Relations Society of America. www.prsa.org.
Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network. www.spawn.org.
Society for Non-Profit Organizations. www.snpo.org.
Society for Technical Communication. www.stc.org.
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. www.tesol.edu. |