Improve lighting on UBC Campus

Ⅰ INTRODUCTION

A: Statement of the problem

B: Purpose of this report

C: Brief description of data sources

D: Scope of this inquiry

ⅠⅠ DATA SECTION [Body]

A: Methods

1. Survey

B: PARTICIPANTS

1. Year

a. 1st

b.2nd

c.3rd

d. 4th

e. 5th

f. Graduated

3. Degree

a.Arts

b.Science

c.Business

d.Commerce

e.Engineering

f. Kinesiology

4. Gender

a. Male

b.Female

c.Prefer not to say

5. Questions

a. feel safe walking at night on campus

b.I think the campus is too dark at night

c. I think UBC should add more Streetlights

d. I take –night classes

e. I think the distance between my classes are

III RESULTS

ⅠV CONCLUSION

1. Summary
2. Recommendations

Memorendum

To: Dr. Erika Paterson, ENGL 301 Instructor

From: Peter Yang, ENGL 301 Student

CC: Dr. Erika Paterson

DATE: June, 22,2022

SUBJECT: Formal Report Proposal

Dear Professor Erika Patterson:

The formal report proposal has been posted on the All-Stars forum page. Underneath is a summary of my proposal.

Audience: UBC Director of Planning: Development Services  Grant Miller.

Introduction: background information about UBC and why is it a great place to visit or study.

statement of the problem: A discussion about the limited streetlight problem and the safety of students.

Proposed plan/solution: Install more laps on campus 

Scope: questions concerning students, faculty, staff and visitors. 

Methods: the distribution of surveys online through Discord.

Qualifications: Fourth Year Psychology Arts student who will graduate in May 2023.

Conclusion: summarizes problems of a few streetlights on the UBC campus.

Class of English 301 

University of British Columbia 

2329 West Mall 

Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

May 30, 2022

peter971217@gmail.com

Dear class of 301,

My name is Peter Yang and I am writing this application letter intended to express my interest in being part of your group for this semester. I believe my expertise and experience will bring a positive contribution to the group. 

I will graduate next May with a BA in Psychology. Due to the abundance of options out there, I began to overthink what I wanted to do after college. Among my options were graduate schools for psychology and law at UBC, and the School of Education at UBC. In the end, I decided to go into the legal field because math is not required in this profession and be admitted, whereas the others do. As a result, entering Law School and becoming an attorney would be my best option. 

Aside from this, I have participated in various volunteer work in the past. For example, I was a program leader for an afterschool care program called Steveston United Peers, which is designed for kids with disabilities to practice social skills. In addition, I also have volunteered as a swim coach at River Club and as a volunteer for my swim club: Richmond Kigoos Swim Club. On top of that, I also have volunteered at various charity events such as the Canadian Cancer Society. 

In addition to my volunteer experience, I enjoy swimming and playing basketball. In fact, I used to be on the Provincial swim team, where the swim meet was broadcasted live online on the BC Summer Swiming Association website in 2016. Furthermore, I also have earned numerous awards and am often a  Finalist for all my events.

Based on my previous experiences, I think that I am the perfect candidate for the team because of my social skills, my habit of starting assignments early and completing them in a timely manner; my habit of helping people; my habit to help with creating ideas; my habit of helping with some editing, and my habit of checking my email all the time. However, I occasionally have some grammatical errors, and sometimes lose focus if I work on something for long durations but other than that, I believe I am suitable to be part of your group. Finally, I hope that I receive your message at your earliest convenience. 

Sincerely,

Peter Yang

301 Peter’s Application letter 1

University Of British Columbia 

11131 No 1 Road, 

Richmond, BC 

V7E 1S6

August 8, 2022

Dr. John Popham

Allard Hall, 

1822 E Mall,

 Vancouver, BC 

V6T 1Z1

Dear Dr. Popham

My name is Peter Yang, and I am writing this letter to express my interest in applying to Peter. A Allard School of Law here at UBC. Attending Law school is one of the things I have always wanted to do after I graduate. More specifically, I want to go to UBC law school because it is close to home and because it is one of the schools I have dreamt of attending and learning law so I can be a lawyer. Although my dream of coming to UBC came true, I never had the chance to attend any in-person courses because of the pandemic, so I think going to UBC law would be a great option for me because I get to take in-person courses and learn about the Candian law.

In May 2023, I will graduate from UBC’s Bachelor of Arts in Psychology program. The Center for Accessibility at UBC helped me overcome my learning disability, and made me very successful in my studies, which is why I will likely register myself with them again when I were be admitted. Apart from academics, I have participated in various volunteer work in the past. For example, I was a program leader for an afterschool care program called Steveston United Peers, which is designed for kids with disabilities to practice social skills. In addition, I also have volunteered as a swim coach at River Club and as a volunteer for my swim club: Richmond Kigoos Swim Club. 

On top of that, I also have volunteered at various charity events such as the Canadian Cancer Society. I also, participated in a variety of extracurricular activities such as swimming, playing basketball, and making Youtube videos. Based on these experiences, I know that I can bring a massive contribution to the UBC Law school community. I hope to hear from you at your earliest convenience.

Best regards,

Peter Yang

Peter Yang

TO: Ethan Fung (Team member), Juanita Kwok (Team member) and Danae Echeverria (Team member)

From: Peter Yang, ENGL301 Student

CC: Ethan Fung (ENGL 301Team member), Juanita Kwok (ENGL 301 Team member) and Danae Echeverria (ENGL 301Team member) Matilda Murray (ENGL 301 Team Member).

DATE: June 22, 2022

SUBJECT: Best practices concerning professional networking on LinkedIn

 I have used online resources for my research on LinkedIn and here is a summary of the information I found.

1.  Personal profile: Having a generic summary with details on skills, projects, interests, and certifications in relevant sections is crucial.
2. Headshot: Smiling and showing most of your face in the frame is important.
3. Summary: Having an informative summary is important.
4. Be active: Reaching out to connections, asking for informational interviews, requesting referrals, commenting on content you come across, share content will help you get noticed.
5. Follow companies and use job search filters: Following companies allow you to receive job alerts and give them the chance to contact you.
6. Application: Being active and focusing on the most recent job postings is important.
7. Join groups: Joining a LinkedIn account can help you get noticed and make meaningful connections with the industry you hope to join.
8. Experience:  Including work experience that is relevant to your business or your projected career path is important.
9. Engage with personal connections: Having personal connections on LinkedIn is important.
10. Keeping: Keeping an updated profile allow more attention.

Indeed, having a LinkedIn account is both an amazing and important tool to use, for building personal connections. The topics discussed above are a summary of the research I did in regards to best practices concerning professional networking on LinkedIn.

Work Cited 

Arrive, Team. “Top 10 Tips to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile.” Arrive, 25 June 2022, arrivein.com/career-ca/top-10-tips-to-optimize-your-LinkedIn-profile-for-job-search-in-Canada.

Balkhi, Syed. “How to Network on LinkedIn Like a Pro.” Business.Com, 29 June 2022, www.business.com/articles/linkedin-networking-tips.

Smulders, Stefan. “How to Network on LinkedIn – 10 Do’s and Don’ts for You to Consider.” Expandi, 30 June 2022, expandi.io/blog/how-to-network-on-LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Memo

Reflection 3

Writing

As someone who is majoring in the field of Psychology, a Research Methods course is required to graduate. In other words, conducting an experiment, and writing a report on the results is not really a problem for me; however, I have only taken introductory research methods, so this assignment is considered difficult for me because when I took Research Methods, I was in groups of five where work are distributed evenly between members, so doing this assignment own is really hard.

What I found the most challenging part of this assignment is distributing the surveys. At first,  I didn’t know how and to where should I send it to and I didn’t know who will and who won’t fill it out truthfully. Because we are still in this pandemic, I didn’t want to give it to go on campus and ask people to fill it out, so I decided to use Discord instead.  This option ends up pretty successful because this keeps everyone’s information private and is much quicker to collect data; moreover, I can copy the graph from responses and paste it into my required sections. 

Peer Review

This time I feel a lot more confident doing this peer review assignment because  I know what to say and how could I help my partner be successful. For instance, instead of making paragraph-based feedback, I used bullet points and distributed them into subsections, so it will be clearer for my partner to read. Moreover,  I am open to what I should say and use good constructive criticism to help my partner write a great report. As well, as helping me with improving my report. 

Above all, unit three was a good experience.  Good experience but a challenging unit as well.

Formal Report draft

Reflection Unit 2

In unit 2, we learned to do research on how to create a LinkedIn profile, create a professional social media network, and the process of brainstorming and preparing my report proposal and outlines. We also did peer-reviewing for your partner’s proposal. Finally, we worked on brainstorming for our formal report.

I find Unit two also quite interesting and learned quite a bit about creating a LinkedIn profile, creating a professional social media network, and the process of brainstorming and preparing my report proposals. I realized that each activity that I did had its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that I get to learn how to create a good LinkedIn profile and how important LinkedIn is after my research. I learned that LinkedIn is the primary social media website for finding a job and how important each section of the profile is. For example, how important my headshot is and how to write or what to include in my summary. While, I did learn a lot about creating a LinkedIn profile, doing research is not that easy as there is so much to choose from.

On top of doing research on LinkedIn and professional networking, I also get to learn how to write a proposal and an outline. Since I am an Arts student, I was required to write essay outlines numerous times and  I never learned the proper way until this week. For example, I learned that I should include Roman Numerals, in alphabetical order, and numbers. 

On top of that, I also learned that proposal writing is so complicated with so much content. Most importantly, not only did I learn a lot about proposal writing but also, I get to brainstorm for the Formal Report assignment. I find thinking about a topic for the formal report complicated because there is so much to choose from. Upon further thinking, I realize lighting on campus is an issue as it gets really dark at night and there are limited amount lamps, I think this would be an interesting topic to investigate.

Finally, the part I find both challenging and useful is the peer-reviewing process. I find it challenging because I worry that I might say something hurtful without realizing it. Or, the document is well written that I have no idea what to say. Aside from the challenging part, I find peer review really helpful as it gives others the opportunity to provide feedback and point out what I missed or should be changed. For example, my main problem is grammar and receiving feedback helped me improve and edit my work to make it better.

Overall, this unit 2 was a unique experience for me.

Formal proposal revised

EF peer review of Peter’s formal report proposal

Reflection

Writing

Writing the Definition assignment was certainly not as easy as I hoped for. My first challenge in this assignment was figuring out what term I should choose to write about. However, the writing assignment was not as challenging as I imagined. After further research and consideration, I finally came across the term Medulla Oblongata, which is from Neuroscience and Medicine. Neuroscience is a branch of study that has always fascinated me. I now feel that Psychology is such a large field to major in, due to its division into so many branches. My research provided me with a great deal of information about the Medulla. More specifically, I figure that my past knowledge is just entry-level, and after this assignment, my knowledge broadens. For example, from doing the research, I learned that there are two parts to the Medulla: the dorsal region and the ventral regions. As mentioned in the assignment instructions, try not to have too much jargon, so I decided to not mention them but highlight key points and ideas regarding the Medulla Oblongata for this assignment.

Peer review

I find the peer review part of this assignment the most difficult. As a peer reviewer, I am worried that I will offend my partner or offer advice that won’t benefit them. Furthermore, I often don’t know what to say to them during peer-reviewing. Despite how stressful peer-reviewing might be, it is still the most crucial part of the writing process because this is the part where others can offer feedback to improve one’s work. During the peer review process, some miscommunication occurred when two people did a peer review on the same person which lead to one of our partners not receiving feedback, but we still managed to complete it in the end. I find this process very helpful because I realized that there are some things that I need to focus on when writing and that is my grammar. 

Editing

The editing process in this assignment is straightforward compared to the writing and peer review process because I already knew what I had to work on based on my partner’s comments. For example, adding more information in some sections as suggested by my partner; as well as, fixing the grammar mistakes that I made in the assignment. Furthermore, this also gives me the opportunity to double-check my work to see whether there are grammar mistakes and include more information or delete information if necessary. Therefore, I learned to utilize the editing process so I can get higher marks on my assignments.

Dear Danae:

Sorry for the late reply and informal reply.

After reading over your Application Letter, I believe that with your writing expertise you will bring a great contribution to our group. Also, as you mentioned that you worked as a manager is very impressive as you need extremely good communication skills, so I accept your request.

Best regards,

Peter

Class of English 301

University of British Columbia

2329 West Mall

Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

May 30, 2022

peter971217@gmail.com

Dear class of 301,

My name is Peter Yang and I am writing this application letter intended to express my interest in being part of your group for this semester. I believe my expertise and experience will bring a positive contribution to the group.

I will graduate next May with a BA in Psychology. My goal after graduation is to enter Law School and I hope to become an attorney in the future. The school that I hope to attend is Peter Allard School, of Law here at UBC.

I have participated in various volunteer work in the past. For example, I was a program leader for an afterschool care program called Steveston United Peers, which is designed for kids with disabilities to practice social skills. In addition, I also have volunteered as a swim coach at River Club and as a volunteer for my swim club: Richmond Kigoos Swim Club. On top of that, I also have volunteered at various charity events such as the Canadian Cancer Society.

Based on my previous experiences, I think that I am the perfect candidate for your team because of my social skills, my habit of starting assignments early and completing them in a timely manner; my habit of helping people; my habit to help with creating ideas; my habit of helping with some editing, and my habit of checking my email all the time. I, however, sometimes have grammatical errors when I write and sometimes lose focus if I work on something for long durations. Other than that, I believe I am a suitable member of your group. I hope that I receive your message at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,

Peter Yang

Peter Yang