{"id":58,"date":"2020-12-10T23:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/?p=58"},"modified":"2020-12-10T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:21:08","slug":"unit-3-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/2020\/12\/10\/unit-3-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 Reflection Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unit 3 Reflection Blog <\/span><\/p>\n

In the third unit of the ENGL 301 course, we were tasked to write \u201c Writing with You Attitude Memo to Evan Crisp\u201d, \u201c Business Letters: Complaint & Bad Newsletter\u201d, a formal report draft, as well as two peer reviews. I learned much in this unit, and I am confident that these strategies are useful in the workplace. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWriting with You Attitude Memo to Evan Crisp\u201d Reflection<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

This assignment is by far the most challenging one because it was difficult to not use personal pronouns when I am writing a Memo to someone. However, this exercise made me understand that using personal pronouns too often, can make my message sound informal. <\/span><\/p>\n

I learned that effective writer avoids using pronouns because they want to be respectful. Pronouns should be omitted or carefully used when we are providing suggestions, writing emails, or doing peer reviews.\u00a0 <\/span>Our message can sound condescending if we don\u2019t know how to use a positive tone. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c Business Letters: Complaint & Bad Newsletter\u201d Reflection <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This assignment helps me to place myself in the shoes of the manager -the person who receives my complain. In this exercise, I understand the importance of respecting readers even though they might make a mistake. The best way to file a complaint is not to just express our anger, but to communicate the problem effectively and in a respectful tone so that the person that receives our complaint will be more likely to help us. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFormal Report Draft\u201d Reflection <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I enjoyed the process of writing a draft because I was able to learn about business writing. This is my first time taking a technical writing class, I was ignorant about the format of business writing and everything, but luckily the instructor blog provided me a lot of suggestions, and I use textbook\u2019s examples to organize my draft. <\/span><\/p>\n

I also encountered some problems when I was writing, the first problem I had is that, I can find little research on the subject I am writing about. My group member (Annie) also writes about this in her peer review of my draft. Annie said that my literacy review does not fit into the paper, which I agree with, and I will try my best to make parts fit these days. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeer Review Reflection\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this stage of the assignment, I was able to see writing techniques that worked well in Annie\u2019s assignment, and mirror that in my own writing. I like the way how Annie organizes her survey results, and I will probably do a similar organization these days. I was able to find parts of my writing that don\u2019t fit and some parts that were written ungrammatically. Because I am not a native speaker, I appreciate other\u2019s suggestions because I might not able to see the problems in my own writing. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unit 3 Reflection Blog In the third unit of the ENGL 301 course, we were tasked to write \u201c Writing with You Attitude Memo to Evan Crisp\u201d, \u201c Business Letters: Complaint & Bad Newsletter\u201d, a formal report draft, as well as two peer reviews. I learned much in this unit, and I am confident that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shujunpeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}