Monthly Archives: December 2017

Unit 4: Creating a Web Folio

One of the most important things I have learned from this class is how to create an online presence. It has been ten years since I have graduated university. Though I have had a LinkedIn Profile, I have never treated it as an online resume.

Web Presence

It’s essential to create a web folio now. Employers continue to seek information online. A web folio allows an individual to include much more details without making a page look cluttered – hyperlinks can be used to extra contents. For an employer, experiences become more searchable. Codes can be written to scan online portfolios for essential qualifications, and that is what’s most appealing about having a web presence.
Compare the tradition resumes, webfolio allows individuals to present personalities in ways of design.

Categories

A web folio can include many divisions. These divisions can drift away from the traditional resume partitions. I have created this webfolio following the assignment instruction since I have no plan of changing profession or employer at this point. I would like to include more digital contents for my future webfolio. Most of my work experiences are highly technical, and my resume lack of creative materials visually.
I plan to browse through my classmates’ web folios after this course ends. I would like to investigate the different platforms, in addition to a blog, available for creating web folios.

Self Assessment – Editing for a Professional Style and Tone

Know the Audience

One of the first lessons I have learned in this course is to write to a specific audience in mind. This helps to narrow down the technicalities of the writing. Knowing the audience will help to shape the details and the descriptions used in writing as well.

Editing Technics

Chapter 11 of the textbook has been a useful chapter for me. When drafting any documents, I often write with hesitations and unsureness.  This habit makes my writing wordy, and trite. Going through each of the sections in Chapter 11 of the textbook, I have learned to look for specific edits for professionalism. Going forward, I would like to make a cheat sheet to remind myself of these avoidable habits.

Re-edit

Unit 4 of this course involves many re-edits of the previous works. Revisiting work with a few specific problems in mind is satisfying. I have written many of the earlier assignments at night after work. I have found the ambiguous uses of stacked nouns in my work. It is much easier to edit and re-edit during the day when I am less exhausted, where my thoughts are more precise and less passive, and less repetitive.

Edit and More Edit

To have a good writing style, the key really lies in practice. Coming out of each unit, I wished I could commit more time to write and edit my work. Unfortunately, time is always hard secure. Going forward, I believe what’s more important is to write with professional editing styles in mind. I need to write my sentences with particular rules in mind. Looking for an excellent person to peer review is another key.