One of our assignments for this unit was to research and write a list of best practices for creating a LinkedIn profile. I have used LinkedIn for many years and used both my first-hand experiences and referencing secondary opinions on how to best utilize the platform to write my assignment. Over the years, I have made many changes to my profile based on current trends and feedback. Since I have this experience, I started the assignment by simply brainstorming some of the ways I feel my profile has been successful. This included things such as having a professional photo and formal, yet friendly language. Then, I went to secondary sources to see what other opinions are out there to both substantiate my initial ideas, and introduce me to ideas I hadn’t yet considered. for example, I had not considered joining professional groups on LinkedIn to network with professionals with similar interests. I added these newer ideas to my list. Conversely, some of my initial ideas didn’t appear in any of the other lists I found. For example, my recommendation to take a break from networking when needed to avoid burnout wasn’t confirmed by an external list, yet I decided to include it because it still really resonated with me.<\/p>\n
Synthesizing my ideas into a report proposal was a useful process to determine the feasibility of my plan and gain feedback. I was surprised that following a specific structure not only formalized my ideas, but helped develop them. For example, I hadn’t even considered what areas of inquiry I was interested until the report stipulated that they be included. Having to fulfill the requirements of the assignment actually helped improve my plan and I learned that structures can be helpful in making progress. This also applies to the outline, which encouraged a systematic laying out of each section of the report. I reflect that before completing the outline, I felt unsure of how to start making progress. The outline acts as a to-do list for me to reference while writing and makes the assignment feel more approachable. For example, the outline including a sections such as ‘limitations of the study’ not only reminds me to include that content, but gives me a chunk of content I can work on whenever I feel ready to, so the actual writing process doesn’t have to be linear.<\/p>\n
After publishing my report proposal to the team forum, I had the opportunity to offer feedback to Cheka on their report on How to Better Support Note-Takers to Improve Learning Experience for Students at UBC<\/a>. I was impressed with their proposal and was assured to see many of the organizational features such as bullet points and lists to be similar to my own work. I recognized that their structure and writing contributed to my interest in the topic, and it was persuasive. I was particularly impressed when they used tactful organization to break their problem into sub problems. I feel this not only is clarifying, but highlighted the importance of the proposed study. Cheka also peer reviewed my proposal<\/a>. I appreciated the opportunity to gain feedback, and since our reports were structured similarly, I was reassured with their positive remarks. I particularly appreciated how specific their feedback on grammar and sentence structure was, and I implemented it directly. I also appreciated their suggestion to reference scholarly resources on my topic, and after consideration decided to take their advice. Overall, I received high quality feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LinkedIn Profile One of our assignments for this unit was to research and write a list of best practices for creating a LinkedIn profile. I have used LinkedIn for many years and used both my first-hand experiences and referencing secondary opinions on how to best utilize the platform to write my assignment. Over the years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aletheakramer301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}