Best Works

This page features the best work of this semester, with commentary on the purpose and success of each assignment I have chosen to include on the page. Revisions had been made to my assignments in response to peer review. Modifications to the peer review I have offered others have also been made in accordance with the YOU attitude we have recently covered.

Definition Assignment

The goal of this assignment was to write a parenthetical, sentence and expanded definition of a complex term that is specific to our respective fields. The purpose of this is for us to appreciate how the complexity of a definition is dependent on the audience we are communicating with. My previous degree was in Biology, so I chose a term from this field, as I am most comfortable with it. The term I will be delving into is Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats cas9 system (shortened as CRISPR-Cas9), which is a technique that can be used in gene editing.

Peer Review of Definition Assignment

Throughout this course, we have, in our teams, engaged in the process of peer review. Peer review helps us not only revise our work based on input from peers, but it is also our responsibility to offer peer review to others. Below I have a revised copy of a peer review for a teammate.

Formal Report Proposal & Progress Report w/surveys

The formal report was an assignment where the student was to come up with an existing problem in a field they are familiar with and commit to the process of professionally making a complaint to the body responsible for handling such complaints. It was our responsibility to identify the problem, draft a report detailing this problem, and conduct research to inquire into possible solutions. My student survey is included, but for the sake of brevity and clarity, the results were not included in the final report.

Complaint Letter and Response Letter

The purpose of this assignment was for students to learn how to write effective business documents. This took the form of a complaint letter and a response letter to the complaint. My complaint and response letters were fictional and involved a mishap during an Amazon delivery service.

Peer Review of Application Package

Similar to the previous peer review, here I reviewed my peer’s application package. I came up with a template, that largely involved a break-down of each of the major subheadings; job description, cover letter, resume and reference letters.

Peer Review of Formal Report

The formal report involved a component where we evaluated a peer’s formal report draft and provided helpful insight.