Dear Readers,

Below are my reflections on the process of creating a formal report draft and peer-reviewing a formal report draft.

Organizing, and contextualizing the formal report was not foreign to me as I am currently a Sociology major. However, I found difficulty in formatting a formal report as I am used to formatting persuasive research papers. Research papers, specifically in the field of sociology, implement a theoretical aspect of the report. It took some time to adjust to a more objective approach to a report rather than a subjective, more opinionated approach I am comfortable using. Nevertheless, the reports types included similar organization and contents. Although the formatting between the two report types were different, I found that the commonality between the two report types make it easier to understand trends and ongoing issues in our current society.

The major concepts I learned from this assignment were the various ways of presenting data in research report. This assignment taught me how to use graphs and charts to better present data I obtained. This assignment also allowed me to create a survey and interview a number of respondents in ways I have never done before. However I found it challenging to filter in and only mention the important data trends from my survey into the report. It took a lot of editing and thinking to decide which results deemed effective in my report. At first my report was set to be over the page limit set, but overall, I was able to manage my survey results and filter out unnecessary information to the best of my ability.

The peer review process for this particular assignment had its positives and its negatives. I received great feedback regarding my formatting and organization of my report. I found the feedback from my fellow Wordsmith, Julian, to be very insightful and I plan to use all of their recommendations. I was however, too optimistic hoping to find more recommendations regarding the content of my report. As I mentioned earlier, I found it challenging to leave out some survey results as I believed that too much of my material was helpful in my argument. I was not able to get feedback regarding my content, but that is partly due to the fact that Julian and I had far different topics for our reports.

Below is my draft of my formal report.

ENGL 301 Justin Man Revised Formal Proposal doc Formal Report Draft docx

LinkedIn Profile

Creating a LinkedIn profile has proven to be one of the best ways to create and build connections with old and potential employers for work. I always knew it was essential to create a LinkedIn profile, but I never treated LinkedIn as much of a priority before this assignment. This assignment helped me understand the significance of presenting yourself in a professional manner. Being clear, detailed, and candid while also being concise and straight-forward within a LinkedIn profile proved to be best for the assignment. Choosing your audience, interests, and tailoring your own personal LinkedIn profile has not only helped my research process for my Formal Report, but it will benefit my professional career for years to come.

Formal Report Proposal and Outline

Finding an issue within your own personal experiences to analyze and potentially solve is not an easy task to begin with. I immediately thought about my most recent personal experiences to see how I can make a difference within my community. Fortunately, I was able to commit myself to an issue that affects myself as well as a large number of my peers. Formulating a proposal helped me think deep into potential reasons for this issue as well as possible solutions. Creating survey and interview questions to gain primary data assisted me in narrowing down my focus behind my analysis of the issue. Finally, creating an outline as well as a progress report helped me pace and organize my thoughts and ideas of my report.

Peer Review

As expected from my fellow team members, every proposal featured very significant issues that my peer had a great amount of passion for. It is however, very easy to made bias statements in these proposals. I am not completely absolved of making bias statements myself. It was important to review and give critical feedback regarding unbiased material. Reviewing my peers’ proposals influenced me to stay unbiased and truthful with my formal report.

Report Proposal: ENGL 301 Justin Man Revised Formal Proposal doc

Peer Review: https://blogs.ubc.ca/engl301-99a/2018/10/17/review-for-the-arts-connection/

Dear Readers,

This reflection post presents my thoughts, impressions, and feelings toward writing, critiquing  and editing my set of definitions from the feedback I received from my fellow members of the Wordsmiths Collective.If you haven’t had a chance to read my definitions for Female Organization Theory, a link will be attached on the bottom of this post!

I found great interest in creating definitions for my term, Female Organization Theory because it is a concept that is prevalent in our Westernized society today, especially in the news and social media setting. With movements such as the Me Too movement and the Presidential agenda enforced by Donald Trump, it is important to understand the social constructs and ideologies as to why we as members of this Western society are facing these issues of social adversity and sexist discrimination. This assignment gave me the opportunity to inform my peers on a theory that has opened up my perception of understanding society and how the world works. I found it easy to explain the meaning of my term through different forms of writing. The parenthetical, sentence, and expansive definitions as well as the visual representation of my definition was quite easy to formulate and construct knowing how prevalent and identifiable gender discrimination is in society today. I found that using examples to show how Female Organization Theory is applied to the real world was the best way to define my term. Using a concrete definition to define my term proved to be a struggle and a challenge of mine in this assignment.

Peer-reviewing my peer’s work was both challenging and effortless. The definitions I critiqued were clear, informative, and well-executed with little to no grammatical, spelling, or organizational errors. I did find however that not all definitions have specific details or examples to draw comparisons to the term. Further research was needed for me to fully immerse my understanding of the term, but the information given in the definitions got me interested in learning more.

In terms of editing, I found myself taking every recommendation given to me to improve my definitions further. I took inspiration from my peers in how they formulated their own definitions and added a few more sub-topics in my expansive section of the definition. Finally applying the changes necessary proved to be exciting and satisfying knowing the approval and support of your peers is present. Overall, this assignment has showed me how difficult it can be to formulate definitions of key principle and terms in different academic disciplines. It also helped me understand the varying ways of explaining, expressing, and defining the meaning of a concept.

Definitions: Feminist Organizational Theory

Unit 1 Definitions DOC