Unit 2 Reflection Blog
This blog post is a reflection blog of assignment 2:3, where I will discuss what I have learned from the writing exercises in Lesson 2.
Best LinkedIn Practices:
The excessive use of social media streams has repelled me from having an active profile on any of the various platforms. Assignment 2:2 highly affected my opinion in the opposite direction; after researching various forms of LinkedIn practices, I am motivated to revisit my profile and commit to using this platform as a means of making important connections. There is vast information regarding how to use LinkedIn to your advantage throughout the internet, each article is logical and inspiring. I am excited to complete a professional networking page and explore the opportunities in marketing myself with industry peers.
Research Proposal:
The most difficult component was brainstorming an idea that relates to my academic and employment worlds, as well as a concept that can incorporate the several requirements for the final draft. Once I committed to the idea of reducing the environmental footprint at the Real Estate office, the subsequent assignments were straightforward and exciting.
Formal Research Proposal
I wasn’t sure what I was working with until I compiled the proposal. The abstract of my research evolved as I read through new information on the topic I was dissecting. This assignment allowed me to work with an idea that was later shaped into a concept for a formal research report.
Formal Research Outline & Progress Update Memo
I found this section to be the most useful thus far. Outlining each step of the process in an outline was surprisingly quick and allowed me to visualize completion of this project. I found the survey creation portion of this assignment to be intricate. I realized how easy it would be to offend a surveyor, therefore each word needed to be evaluated accordingly. The writing schedule was particularly useful to ensure the final draft was on a logical, timely schedule, as well as ensured I time-blocked the necessary moving parts into my calendar.
Peer Review:
Helene Tran’s peer review helped me realize my sentence structures need improvement. I need to focus on using articles and prepositions correctly. Secondly, as I find this formal report writing process to be intimidating, it was comforting to read a peer’s positive view on my topic and proposal.
My experience with reading Helene’s proposal is similar to Lesson 1, where there is a higher level of reading analysis that is used to understand the written material in order to offer a useful suggestion. I found the outline to be more difficult to review, as the topic and research processes are both new to me, therefore my recommendations felt limited.
Final comments:
The course has broken down the Formal Report into several smaller parts. I find this structure to not only be logical, but extremely helpful. Reading assignments from my peers, who are working on a similar writing project, offer valuable insight to the level and expectation of quality for my own assignments. I am looking forward to connecting the puzzle pieces together to form the final report, and sharing the process with a peer who is new to reports as well.