Unit 2 Reflection

LinkedIn Research

I have had a LinkedIn account for near a decade, having updated it recently for my upcoming work term.  Despite that, there were a lot of features of LinkedIn I never knew about, only having discovered them after researching for the LinkedIn assignment.  I never realized I could have recommendations posted directly in my profile, or that there were groups I could join to better improve my networking.  The articles also stressed deeply about the power and usefulness of LinkedIn as a networking tool. Perhaps I should update my profile even further and actually start becoming more active on it to improve my chances of getting a job!

Formal Report Proposal and Outline

It was difficult to brainstorm ideas for the formal report, even when having worked in an organization for six years.  Sure, there were a lot of procedures that I didn’t enjoy, but nothing that I can expand to 12 to 15 pages of writing.  Many moments and scratched ideas later, it came as a relief when I finally found the perfect topic; one that I can actually compress into 12 to 15 pages.  Once the hard part was over, the rest of the pieces fell into place.  Figuring out the solution to the problem was straight forward.  Deciding what information I needed to support my solution laid the foundation of my outline, methodology, report goals, and consequently the meat of the formal report.  Now it is just a matter of taking action.

Formal Report Progress

The work ahead in the coming month seems very packed, but arguably still doable.  Thankfully, the progress report we did, as well as the writing schedule we drafted, helps significantly in planning out my time; turning a daunting task into smaller achievable goals.

Proposal Peer Review

For this unit’s peer review, I found it difficult to provide suggestions to the writer since their proposal was well done, and I also could not find any grammatical or technical errors.  But, having 6 years experience in a working environment helped me approach the proposal in a more business mindset; scrutiny and all.  Since I knew first hand how hard it is to convince organizations to spend money, I gave them suggestions on how to make their solution and argument more convincing in order to get the funding they need for the research.  In regards to their peer review of my proposal, it was really helpful having a second pair of eyes to catch all of the tiny mistakes I easily missed, especially grammatical and technical errors.  Also, since they are unfamiliar with my topic, it was refreshing to see how much detail I left out because I knew the material I was writing and glanced over any details that I thought were obvious.  Like any creative piece, I feel my writing can never be perfect, but it can always be indefinitely improved; and having help in that regard is always a blessing.

My revised proposal: https://blogs.ubc.ca/engl301-98a-2021sa/2021/06/26/301-ryan-tso-formal-report-proposal-revised/
Peer review of my proposal: https://blogs.ubc.ca/engl301-98a-2021sa/2021/06/17/assignment-21-peer-review-for-ryans-formal-report-proposal/ 
Report Outline: https://blogs.ubc.ca/engl301-98a-2021sa/2021/06/25/301-ryan-tso-formal-report-outline/