I had some trouble with unit 3. The opinion survey research for my final project was successful and the divers from Kraken Water Taxi and Diving Services did a great job with their environmental surveys. The amount of detail that they wrote in their comments sections really helped create of picture of the biodiversity of the Southern Gulf Islands. The trouble that I had was that after finishing the data section of my report I walked away from my computer, and when I came back the document that I saved was nowhere to be found. Thus, I had to start my formal report draft from the beginning on the day that it was due. I finished the new copy on November 21st, 2016, three days after it was due. It has completely thrown off the schedule of all of my courses, which is why this reflection blog is late. Kayla was incredibly sympathetic to my situation and agreed to review my formal report at the last moment. I appreciate her doing that for me quite a lot, because she was not obliged to do so and it put her overall mark on the line.
Reviewing Kayla Grisack’s formal report draft was relatively straight forward. Since I had to do most of my report twice, I was very comfortable with reviewing the content, organization, style, and design of any formal report. From her report I learned just how important “YOU-attitude” is as the solution part of her report was imperative at parts and the CEO who is the intended reader for her report would not want to be lectured. I really enjoyed her topic, as it is a vast improvement from her original proposition. It is now appropriately professional. From my own report experience I learned that it is important to save information in multiple places. I still cannot find my original copy, not that it matters now. On a positive note, between the time that I wrote my first copy and wrote the copy that got turned in, I learned how to organize my data properly. The first copy was really just numbers of people who said which answer in the survey, which is not the correct way to organize the data. The next time around I was able to keep the data objective, while giving information without numbers. Next copy I need to add some graphs that show the numbers. I did not do the graphs so that Kayla had time to do her report.
In all, even with the trouble that I had, unit three was a good learning experience.