YOU attitude
The first part of this unit was learning about YOU-Attitude. From this advising letter, I could get some idea how to write a letter in a formal way. The given example was a little bit exaggerated, but still had a possible mistake if English is not my mother tongue. Through revising Evan’s email, I got a chance to think about my writing habits. Also the two letters gave me a lot of confidence to get through the problem I will face in Canada. I chose the topic that is really suffering at that time and practising was helpful to solve my problem.
Formal Report Draft
This unit was the most unique part of this course. Since I graduated from my previous university around six years ago, I almost forgot how to write the research report. Most of my research for this report was done when I was preparing for the proposal, so I thought I had enough time to do the rest of the things. But from the start writing, I realised what I was missing. So I had to reorganise and edit my outline and figures I would like to use. I should have prepared earlier than I expected. Collecting data was the most interesting part to me, especially counting rubbish bins on the roads were fun. I counted the number of bins on the roads by myself, and almost walked 15km in total. From the research, I could learn the writing skill itself, but moreover, I realised my topic is a real problem of UBC. I think this is a big study over writing.
Peer Review
As always, peer review is the most enjoyable part. This time I took Ben’s writing which has the topic as “UBC Financial Literacy”. As a former banker, the topic was impressive, since most of South Korea universities also have a problem of financial education lack. While reading his report, I found he did good work on survey and research backup information. Also he presented well interpreted data from the survey. Ben suggested some good points I have to revise. My writing composition was not reader-friendly and that was my confusing part as well. This is the positive point of peer review. Furthermore, I learnt that primary and secondary resources have a synergy when they support each other’s arguments, it makes my opinion more convincing.
Overall, Unit Three was a fun and enjoyable unit to improve and retrieve my writing knowledge for the report.