I found creating my LinkedIn profile to be an invaluable experience. It allowed me to reflect on skills and experiences I have that I may not have given much thought. I believe creating the LinkedIn profile will be very helpful for me when I eventually join the workforce. It will allow potential employers to easily see important details about me, even before seeing a cover letter or resume. Expressing details such as academic projects completed and important classes taken could help in landing a high quality job. These important details could be the difference between one person getting the job versus another, so it’s important they are displayed clearly. I think that the increasing use of computers warrants creating an online profile, so professionals should highly consider making one.
I found creating my formal report proposal and outline to be very helpful for me solidifying my ideas for my final report. Before creating these documents, my ideas seemed very scattered, and I hadn’t picked a specific topic or figured out exactly how I would go about my research. As well, I wasn’t sure how I would structure my document. The outline was particularly useful in determining how to structure my formal report. This was a very valuable step since structuring a document like a formal report is very important. It is one of the key issues that needs to be addressed to make the document professional and easily readable. Overall, I feel I’m clear on how to proceed with my formal report now. I have a specific plan for how I intend to spend my next few weeks, and I know exactly what I would like to complete each week.
The peer review process was very useful overall. It allowed me to reflect upon my own work, as often when I noticed something was missing in my peer’s work, I realized that my own writing was lacking in the same area. For example, both my proposal and my peer review partner’s proposal were missing a section outlining exactly how the formal report topic was relevant to the intended audience. Reading my partner’s proposal also alerted me to an issue about parking space at UBC, which I wasn’t previously aware of.
Overall, I found that creating my proposal and outline, along with the peer review process for the report proposals, to be very useful steps for me developing my own writing skills and determining the specifics of my formal report proposal.
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Attached edited formal report proposal: Formal Report Proposal