Hi Everyone,
This is my reflection on the past unit, specifically the definitions assignment we just completed.
For my assignment, the technical term I chose to define was systole. The revised version can be found here. It relates to my studies in Kinesiology and I thought it was complex enough to need some explaining to a nontechnical reader while still being a relatively basic concept to grasp. I aimed to keep my overall document as concise and easy to digest as possible. After receiving my peer review, I added more detail to my document as this was critic from my partner. Specifically, I expanded on the context of who the term is being explained to and added an operational explanation to the Analysis of Parts section.
When editing my partners document, I had a background on his chosen technical field and found his definitions very well done. I also saw that his assignment was quite more in depth than mine which made me reconsider the simplicity of mine, as mentioned above. I found some minor mistakes in my partners definitions but nothing that took much away from the overall assignment.
Something that I enjoyed, and I think also helped with my learning was going through and reading other definitions apart from just my partners. This gave me an idea of where mine stacked up and what things were consistent in others that I missed. The main thing that stuck out to me was length/detail, which was mentioned by my partner Glen as well. I would say I had the shortest assignment of any that I read. This also contributed to why I decided to add more detail. The main thing I took out of this assignment was being mindful of jargon and unnecessary terminology that does not add much to a person’s understanding. I had to watch myself when writing my own definition and will take this into account for future use.