Please find attached examples of my best work throughout the course ENGL301, organized in chronological order. They have all been revised and edited to better reflect my writing skill development over the term. I’ve included a brief reflection of my experience with each assignment.
- Revised Definition of an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
- My peer had provided many positive comments about my original work but noted that I switched verb tenses throughout the writing and advised of how this may be confusing to the reader. I was able to make relevant changes for a more coherent writing style throughout.
- Revised Peer Review of Definitions of Real Property
- I struggled to write to my peer in a professional tone that is direct and to the point, but not too vague. I learned that I am not critiquing the author, but rather their work.
- Revised Formal Report Proposal – Proposal for Improving Green Initiatives at The Tooth Gallery Dental Office in Ottawa
- Minimal edits were made to the proposal although I heeded the professors recommendation to distribute surveys instead of conducting interviews.
- Revised Formal Report Proposal Memo
- A large error to this memo was a missing title. I also needed to include more details about my specific proposal and not just list a simple outline.
- Revised Peer Review of a Formal Report Proposal – Proposal for reducing food waste at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital
- I struggled the most with this peer review and included a lot of awkward sentences. In an attempt to avoid making too many mistakes, I was much too vague in my report and lacked details about my peer’s actual proposal. I had also incorrectly linked my peer’s work.
- Revised LinkedIn Best Practices Memo
- The only change necessary for this memo was to edit my list of suggestions to avoid the imperative verb tense. This recommendation had been previously noted on my evaluation sheets but I was unaware of truly how to avoid imperative verbs until just recently.
- Revised Memo to Evan Crisp
- This memo was edited to improve the use of YOU attitude that we focused on throughout this assignment and term. It was noted that some of my recommendations to Evan were not written in full sentences. This was where I worked harder at understanding imperative verbs, and my sentence structure was awkward because of it.
- Revised Complaint Letter and Response Letter
- There were few edits to the original letters written as I feel as though they are well-organized and adequately follow assignment instructions.
- Revised Peer Review of a Formal Report – Expanding the ‘Lift the Lip’ Fluoride Varnish Program
- My original peer review lacked important details such as the title of the formal report under review and an explanation of the issue at hand. It was also recommended to end a peer review with a bullet list of suggested edits, whereas I had originally added suggestions throughout the body of the text.
- Revised Formal Report Memo
- While I feel as though my final memo for the term was the most comprehensive, I erroneously misspelled the professors name. I received much fewer responses to the survey for my report than I had expected and had to come up with a solution to make up the data. I feel that the work I handed in throughout the course was a great demonstration of my writing abilities. There were some basic errors in writing style throughout my formal report that reflect that I still have room to develop my skills.