Rowan Harris' Webfolio

A UBC student athlete pursuing an undergraduate degree in biology

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Final Reflections

This technical writing course, ENGL 301, began as an elective course but has been extremely enjoyable and informative, allowing me to develop many different writing skills. By working independently and in collaboration with Dr. Paterson or my writing team, Wise Words, I have prepared proposals, reports, formal correspondence, and online communications – necessities for the […]

Reflections on my Webfolio

Creating a Webfolio  As I have created several blogs over this past semester and have familiarized myself with the UBC blog layout, I thought that creating a webfolio for the final assignment would be simple but this proved to be much more difficult than anticipated. While selecting the design and layout was initially simple, figuring out […]

Past Reflections

Below are the reflections compiled from the first three units of this technical writing course, organized by reverse chronological order. Hopefully these reflections will provide insight to my learning progress throughout the semester.

Reflection on Unit Three Writings

Formal Report Draft Compiling information for this research project has proved to be much more difficult than anticipated. The nature of distributing the student survey through social media has resulted in a biased representation of the student population as many survey participants are my peers in varsity programs. Performing a complete analysis would require a […]

Reflections of Unit Two Writings

Reflection on the LinkedIn Profile Previous to this unit’s assignment, I had not been part of the professional networking platform LinkedIn.  The process of creating a LinkedIn profile was challenging due to the split of my professional experiences between pursuing an undergraduate degree in biology, and competing for the Canadian National Field Hockey Team. By […]

Reflections of Unit One Writings

Assignments in this unit have focused on building relationships with our group members and writing more professionally. Outlined below are reflections of the writing, peer review, and editing stages for the process of defining a technical term in our field of study. Stage 1: Writing Initially, it was difficult to separate the definition of my […]

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