Unit 2 Reflection Blog

In the second unit of the ENGL 301 course, we begin our writing of the major assignment–Formal Report. We were tasked to write a proposal, an outline, and a progress report of the Formal Report. In the process, I experienced many difficulties. Unlike other academic reports, this assignment is more like the kind of report I will be writing in a workplace. For someone who has little work experience like me, I am not very familiar with how to identify a problem in a professional setting, so my first attempt –“propose to add a multimedia tutorial in the first week’s of the class” failed. Due to this failure, I start to reflect on the purpose of the report, then I realized that if I want to write a feasibility report, I must think of something that’s not only original but also workable.

Then I start to reflect on my volunteering experience in the UBC Chinese Learning program, I think critically about what UBC students want to obtain from Oral Practice sessions, what can I (as a volunteer) do for them. So I come up with this idea–to add an assessment in every OP session. An assessment is critical in lesson planning, but it is absent in the OP session. Hence I wonder, why something critical can be omitted from a learning session and what kind of assessment can fit in a 50-minute session.

Deciding what topic to write is both a fun and struggling experience, but once this phase is passed, I am more confident to proceed with writing. Here are my 301 Darius Zhang Formal Proposal,301 Revised Formal Report Proposal Darius Zhang, 301 Formal Report Outline Darius Zhang, 301 Formal Progress Report Darius Zhang

Again in this unit, I learned a lot from peer review. I am very impressed from reading my peer’s proposal, they have all kinds of working experience, and their proposed solution to the potential issue faced by companies/programs is very original. I can not wait to continue to learn from them in the next unit!