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Creating a LinkedIn Profile
Creating a LinkedIn Profile was a new experience for me as I never had a LinkedIn Profile before this assignment. Although I was new to LinkedIn, I found the process of creating a profile quite simple. Yingying’s memo regrading the ten best LinkedIn practices was extremely helpful as I was easily able to discover the keys to building a high quality profile. As pointed out by Kevin in the peer review of my profile, I can certainly further build my profile by earning endorsements for my skills and also improving my summary by stating my goals and interests. I also noticed through research that the skills and summary sections are ones that employers read the most so Kevin’s suggestions were very beneficial and helpful in perfecting my profile to increase the chances of landing a job in the near future.
Formal Report Proposal Preparation
Choosing a topic for my formal report was certainly a challenge since I lack work experience and extracurricular activities and was limited to my experiences in the UBC community. There were not many problems in the UBC community that I have experienced and I only had a few report topic candidates. For every candidate, the process of figuring out whether the topic was investigable through surveys and interviews was very time consuming but I eventually chose a topic where I felt needs to be addressed in the UBC community which is to implement more bus stops on campus.
The report outline and progress report were very helpful in figuring out how my investigation is going to come together into a report. The outline allowed me to plan how to organize my report and through the progress report, I was able to plan my research and set incremental deadlines so that my report can be written as efficiently as possible without rushing on the last day. Currently, I have composed a survey which I am distributing to the UBC community throughout the week and I will be analyzing my data at the end of the week. As suggested by Polly, I am also planning to speak with AMS Safewalk to learn more about safety on campus, which is the main problem in my investigation. I will use charts and graphs based on the data I collect from the surveys and the information obtained by AMS Safewalk as ways to back up the arguments I make in my formal report.
Peer Review Process
I had the pleasure to review Polly’s formal report proposal and through my first read I realized the professionalism in the tone of her writing, the use complex vocabulary and an overall grammar free document. Several read throughs were required in order to find any potential improvements in her work. At the end, I was only able to spot minor areas of improvement like avoiding the overuse of commas in long sentences and instead to break up those long sentences into multiple short sentences. Through reviewing Polly’s proposal, I was able to learn how to incorporate complex vocabulary into my own writing and how word choice makes a tremendous difference in the tone and reading flow of the writing. The peer review process for the report proposal was an overall great experience as now I am able to better articulate my arguments in my formal report using more complex vocabulary and sentences with better reading flow.