{"id":156,"date":"2021-10-08T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/?p=156"},"modified":"2021-10-08T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:21:03","slug":"unit-1-reflection-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/2021\/10\/08\/unit-1-reflection-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 1 Reflection Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post is a reflection blog of assignment 1:3, where I will discuss what I have learned from these writing exercises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Original Writing Exercise<\/b><\/p>\n

A key takeaway from this assignment was to understand the importance of writing according to a targeted audience. This is critical in a professional role, where measuring the level of familiarity your audience will have and communicating accordingly will ensure optimal understanding. Various circumstances can lead to various levels of technical communication, such as purpose, audience and scenario.\u00a0 This lesson allowed me to set up a typical Real Estate scenario that would occur in a lawyer\u2019s office and define the term Real Property to a non-technical audience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another lesson involved in assignment 1:3 included learning the 3 types of definitions; parenthetical, sentence and expanded. Each version of a term has a place depending on the situation and I feel comfortable using each definition level appropriately for future circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

A final lesson I took from this assignment was the importance of organizing a writing work logically to ensure your reader takes back as much as possible.\u00a0 It was critical for the expanded definition to be laid out in a logical way in order for my audience to understand each key component of the term and then to fully understand the concept as a whole.<\/p>\n

Peer review process<\/b><\/p>\n

I sincerely enjoyed reading my peer\u2019s definition of an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.\u00a0 Not only am I unfamiliar with dental terms, but I was able to fully understand Karissa\u2019s explanation of the term.<\/span><\/p>\n

When reviewing someone else\u2019s work, there is a higher level of reading analysis that is used to understand the written material as well as identifying areas that may need further clarification.\u00a0 The peer review allowed me to analyze a writing work objectively and offer an honest opinion on some areas that I found confusing.\u00a0 Reading the document multiple times ensured each sentence was fully analyzed and did not leave out any recommendations that may have been useful. This review involved a higher level of effort, since I wanted to ensure Karissa received the most helpful feedback possible in order to edit her final definitions in the most flawless way possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the opposite end, reading my peer review from Karissa offered fantastic advice on how to finalize my term of Real Property.\u00a0 Receiving suggestions and opinions from my audience on the areas that did not work well is critical feedback to ensure my final draft was as complete and concise as possible.<\/p>\n

Editing process<\/b><\/p>\n

Updating my original definitions using Karissa’s suggestions and comments on her overall impressions she had helped me realize there is always a need to review instructions fully, and to always review repeat sentences that may be confusing to a reader.\u00a0 After finalizing my definitions I am confident a non-technical reader will easily understand the concept of Real Property.<\/p>\n

Revised definition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Karissa Garneau\u2019s peer review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog post is a reflection blog of assignment 1:3, where I will discuss what I have learned from these writing exercises. Original Writing Exercise A key takeaway from this assignment was to understand the importance of writing according to a targeted audience. This is critical in a professional role, where measuring the level of familiarity your audience will have and communicating accordingly will ensure optimal understanding. Various circumstances can lead to various levels of technical communication, such as purpose, audience and scenario.\u00a0 This lesson allowed me to set up…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-13","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tamaraoman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}