Below is a brief reflection of my experience for Unit 2.
LinkedIn Profile:
I’m already familiar with composing a social media profile with a professional appearance, but LinkedIn proves to be a unique long-term challenge. Our recent experience has granted us a solid start on LinkedIn, but I know I need to invest more time to fully utilize LinkedIn, in addition to showcasing my skills and talent. The endorsements are also a strong feature, but will take consistency and time to develop.
Report Proposal and Outline:
Coming up with an idea to pursue was perhaps one of the more challenging parts. However, I eventually settled on my idea to explore more online UBC courses because, since this is the first time I’m taking them, I began to understand how useful they are. Both students AND professors forego commutes while having the flexibility to do the work on their own schedule? It’s a godsend, especially with the state of transit and the cost of living in Vancouver.
The scope, I find, is one of the more challenging aspects of this project, as I have to properly identify what and how to pursue the topics for this project, but within a reasonable timeframe and logistics.
Overall, progress is steady. The research phase should be underway and the rest will follow.
Peer Reviews, LinkedIn Profile
The new format allows a far better visual organization for ideas. I took advantage of this by detailing my peer report template in a way that allows standardization and customization. And such is important when taking into account the many different aspects that compose a LinkedIn profile. I used checklists for standard items (i.e. having a professional profile pic) and long comments for fine details. My feedback received here was also similar to many others – the essentials are present, but there’s more work to do long-term.
Peer Reviews, Formal Report Outline
The most significant aspect I’ve learned here, in both peer reviewing other’s’ work and receiving peer reviews for my own, is how every content should be tailored to the audience. In practice, reports that follow this are more persuasive and agreeable towards their audiences. I find that, while small technicalities, such as reducing wordiness, clarifying phrases, and others, are relatively miniscule if the underlying content isn’t aligned towards a clearly defined audience.
Overall:
Beyond the fundamentals of proper word structure and meaning, I find that this unit has given me more insight towards catering my written content towards a clearly defined audience. Moving on, I look forward to the next units of the course.
Attachments:
revisedAssignment2.1FormalReportProposalbyRobTrigo
Peer reviews:
LinkedIn:
http://engl301.arts.ubc.ca/2017/06/19/assignment-22-peer-review-for-linkedin-profile-2/
Formal Report Outline:
Peer Review: Formal Report Proposal for Using Visual Notes (Lani Diana)