{"id":70,"date":"2017-02-03T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:35:31","slug":"unit-one-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/unit-one-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 1 – An Introduction to Technical Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n

I chose to define \u201cabstraction\u201d because it is a concept that I did not fully comprehend when I took CPSC 210. I have always thought that the best way to learn is to teach and this was the perfect opportunity to challenge myself.<\/p>\n

I learned that thinking about the intended audience is very important as it determines my style of writing. Since I decided on university students who are new to computer science, I wrote in a tone that was not overly formal, but not dumbed-down either. The textbook provided great guidance on how to write technically. I really had to work on cutting out unnecessary words and it was difficult for me to explain a technical term without using more jargon.<\/p>\n

Peer Review Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was familiar with the process of giving positive and constructive feedback in terms of work performance. I was not, however, familiar with the peer review process in terms of technical writing. I simply went through Shannon\u2019s document in order and made note of any grammar mistakes, what could be improved, and possible suggestions for improvement. I struggled with explaining the \u201cwhy\u201d behind my suggestions; it really exercised my critical thinking skills. Shannon did a great job in defining a term that was not in my field of study. Overall I found the process to be open-ended and I enjoyed learning about a new term.<\/p>\n

Editing Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

I found it difficult to follow Shannon\u2019s peer review for me because it jumped around a lot\u2014her review was not based on the order of my document in the same way I did my peer review for her. Other than that, I found her feedback to be helpful. I learned what I should continue doing and what areas could be improved. The parts where Shannon thought needed more work were the same expanded definitions that I had problems in defining. She pointed out specific examples in my work and provided valuable suggestions which I implemented. I also learned that in-text citations should be inside the period rather than on the outside.<\/p>\n

301 Angela Chen Definitions Revised<\/a><\/p>\n

Shannon’s Peer Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original Writing I chose to define \u201cabstraction\u201d because it is a concept that I did not fully comprehend when I took CPSC 210. I have always thought that the best way to learn is to teach and this was the perfect opportunity to challenge myself. I learned that thinking about the intended audience is very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/achen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}