Process of Creating LinkedIn Profile

I have had a LinkedIn profile for a long time and I have always tried to keep it updated, such as adding in new accomplishments, new skills obtained, and updating education or professional training experiences. One thing I have never realized is I should have a summary. Hard cold facts about work experiences, education, and skills are important information, but you communicate your experience and passion at a personal level with potential recruiters in the summary section. I really enjoyed writing a summary about my background and passion at this moment.

Report Proposal and Outline

I started the process by looking at the list of topics chosen by previous students in the ENGL 301 course. There are some very interesting topics, but I found it difficult to write about something I don’t have deep understanding and knowledge of. It’s also difficult to be passionate about a topic that doesn’t affect me on a daily basis. I started to consider writing something about my work. I have been trying to propose my ideas of improving our software to my manager and my colleagues during our casual conversations. Although I had a somewhat concrete understanding of the different aspects of the issue, I felt this was a perfect opportunity for me the formalize it and put it into writing. I can focus on the high level analysis and discussions for this course, and expand with the technical details afterwards. This can turn into a formal report proposal I can present to senior management and try to make a change.

Peer Review Process

I found my partners choice of topic quite interesting primarily because I went to SFU as well and had firsthand experience of the winter traffic problem, and I was extremely interested in how he proposed to solve the problem. He provided some good suggestions but I found that he didn’t have enough angle covered on the issue. The main solutions were based on the assumption that the reason of transportation shut down was not having snow tires on the buses. I think it makes a better argument to first establish facts of if it is actually the case that the buses don’t have snow tires, does installing snow tires solve the problem, are there other reasons buses, cars cannot drive on the mountain, are there any other possible solutions. This reminds me not to over simplify a problem and I should try to look at the problem from different perspectives and thoroughly analyze it.

My partner provided some excellent suggestions to my proposal. I completely didn’t realize I didn’t have a single sentence in the introduction to summarize what issue I am trying to resolve. He also pointed out that I should have a small paragraph describing what my company does, which I think is a great idea. I did struggle whether I should do it when I first wrote the proposal and decided not to include it. But my readers will not only be people from the company, but also professor and TA from this course. Overall, my partner helped me to understand the importance of restating my problem statement to present a clear objective of my report, and to consider all possible audience.

Link to my peer review of proposal: assignment-21-peer-review-of-engl301-formal-report-proposal

Link to my edited formal report proposal: 301-Wei-Edwin-Chen-Formal-Report-Proposal-Edited