As we have come to the end of Unit 2, I am proud of my writing and assignments that I have produced. Im able to reflect back on all of the components of this unit and see my strengths and areas still needing improvement.
The first assignment was the creation of the LinkedIn profile. The biggest difficulty I found while completing this was talking about myself. LinkedIn included subsections including skills and talents, I did not feel comfortable listing a set of skills. I think aspects of Linkedin can be very useful, in particular the ease of networking it allows you to do. I found it as a great start to a resume, since you are gathering and entering educational and work experience. It would be very easy to take what you enter into LinkedIn and convert it into a strong resume.
The report proposal was something completely new to me so at first I found it rather intimidating. Once I was able to find the example in my textbook I was off and running. The format and the writing was very straightforward. The hardest part of the assignment was finding a topic that was of interest, and fit the model required. Setting up my research was also a first. I knew the type of data I wanted to include in my paper, and had to give some thought to the questions that is required to support and give proper recommendations and solutions to the problem I have brought forward. I feel once I am able to pass along my survey and begin to receive data, I know the direction I want my paper to take.
For the proposal, I found my peer review to be difficult. My partner did not follow the same format as I, which led to a fair bit of editing and adjusting that I had to work through in order to give him the best feedback possible. I also found his topic to be one that was not appropriate for a research paper (based on the assignment details). Throughout reviewing peers work I have learnt a fair bit about my own writing. I see my strength in format and sentence structure. I am also able to identify the strengths in my peers and take away from their papers what they excel at and apply it to my own paper.
This unit went by extremely quickly, hard to imagine we are halfway through the course.
301 Brooke Bowles Edited Formal Report Proposal
Link to my peer review