D#14 HW#2

Project #4 we had to work in groups and that was pretty hard because this is an online class.  I wanted to start on the project ahead of time so we could plan to meet up together and do everything together as a group.  Rochelle also contacted everyone and other steps that we took were evaluating the resources and outlining the report. Of course, as I have been saying all semester, I would start earlier if I could. I guess there is no way to change that anymore as this is the last project. I think that group project don’t turn out good if the course taken is an online course, if I could do this project again I would plan to have plenty of time set aside for this course. The part I am most proud of this project is that we have completed it as a group, it is very hard to do a group project when the course is online because what most groups will do is have one person do the whole project while others don’t do anything, therefore it doesn’t turn out to be a group project. I learned a lot during this project such as evaluating software.  I also think I learned more about organization in this project. The major course outcome that was met in this assignment has to be “understand the collaborative and social aspects of research and writing processes.” There were other outcomes that we worked towards as well, including organizational style, and flexibility. I thought that this was nice, I’m glad that I have a blog to document all of the work and reflections I’ve completed. This course has been very interesting.

D#14 HW#2 Notes from Chapter 23

Presentations    Pg 391

Audience             Pg. 42

Visuals                  Pg. 552

Voice                     Pg. 557

Tone                      Pg. 532

Proofreading     Pg. 411

Proposals            Pg. 412

Organization      Pg. 361

D#13 HW#3

Today I made some changes to my blog, the changes I made enhanced my blogs appearance indeed.  I changed the theme, the new theme i have contains dark colors which are mostly gray and black.  The text color is white and the new theme is very clear and less complicated.  I also did add a “About” page and that contains the reason why i have this blog.  I also added two widgets which one was a homework calender which organizes my homework by months.  The other widget that I added was my most recent post’s in order.  I didn’t have any categories for my post so i added some categories and the categories were named after the deadlines.  I think after the changes i made today it changed the perspective of my blog a lot, after a viewer views my blog they can tell that it is very organized and plain so it makes it easy to read the post entries.

D#12 HW#2

I haven’t had time to start on project since I was busy with deadline 10 &11.  I was planning on emailing my teammates and planned on getting together somewhere and discuss about the project.  By the time I was finished with deadline 10 & 11 one of the teammates already emailed everyone and had completed the proposal.

If I were to complete the project again I would try to get started earlier. I would have arranged a meeting with all my teammates and discussed what were going to propose and what each person was going to be doing.

For next project I will definitely try to get started on it earlier and try to work as a group and not have one person doing most of the work. I would try to work on it on the weekdays and not on the weekends because college students such as me mostly work on the weekends and don’t have time to work on school work.

On this project, I felt as if I didn’t do anything and I didn’t do anything so I am not proud of anything that I haven’t done.  The only thing I did on this project was read my teammates outline and agree if it was good enough.

For the next project, I will participate and continue to work with my teammates and take part of the project.

D#10 HW#3

On Project one I have revised it and have made some corrections.  I have changed some labeling font color to red such as the ones on page two.  I also cut down on pages I tried to fit as much information as possible on each page so I don’t waste paper.  I also adjusted the sizes of the headers on some pages to save some space.  I didn’t make the headers too small or too big, I just made them a reasonable size.  On page 8 I added some notes and tips of what kind of information on the profile.  I also deleted the “add a subscription” button and instead just entered it in text.  That was about all the editing I did on project one.

D#10 HW#4

What were the steps you took to complete the entire project #3? How might you change your process if you were to complete the project again? What steps do you think you will take for your next project?

Well at first I posted up the two types of instructions on my blog with a link to a survey to complete. After that I posted a blog link on my facebook so I can recruit the participants. After I received the feedback from the participants, by that time I also got some feedback from the instructor. So I combined all the feedback and revised project 1 and started finishing up project #3. If I were to do it again I would give myself more time to work on it. It took me one week to the project but next time I would give myself at least 2-3 weeks. For the next project I will give myself more time to work on it.

What are you most proud of in this project? Why are you proud? What are you most concerned with in this project? How did you try to address that concern before finally submitting your project? If you had more time, how might you further work on that concern?

The part that I am most of myself is that I finished the project while being so busy these days. The most I am concerned about this project is that if I had met all the requirements needed to receive a good grade. If I had more time I will give myself more time to work on it and include a very detailed project.

In terms of learning about composing, what did you specifically work on to improve during this project? Do you feel you succeeded in improving your composing processes or skills? What composing processes or skills will you work on during your next project?

Last project I used InDesign to create my instructions in PDF but this time I considered using Microsoft Word. The reason why I chose word is because I am very familiar with it and it easier to work then InDesign. I also tried to make the project as professional as possible and not look like a last minute project.

What course outcomes did you work towards during this project? Do you feel you achieved them? How do you know? What evidence does either your process or product for this current writing provide towards demonstrating your achievement of a course outcome? What outcomes do you think you will work on in your next project?

On this project I was able to Identify, articulate, and focus on a defined purpose by creating instructions. I also learned to respond to the need of the appropriate audience. I also learned to adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality. Writing in multiple genres – technical instruction manual and video composition and Understanding the role of a variety of technologies/media in accessing, retrieving, managing, and communicating information. Using appropriate technologies to organize, present, and communicate information to address a range of audiences, purposes, and genres- again using both written and video to communicate information.

D#10 HW#2

p72 – Collaborative writing – contains information of task assignment, planning, research and writing, and reviewing.
p 73 – Conflict – is going to help us because conflict might happen and to overcome it this information will be helpful.
p307 – Listening – this information will help me be a good listener and to know what the team mates are trying to say.

D#10 HW#1

1. Which of the communication or problem-solving styles discussed in this chapter do you tend to favor? Do you prefer the competitive speaking style or the considerate style? Are you a holistic or an action-oriented problem solver? Can you think of a time when your preferences for one style over another interfered with your ability to work productively on a team?

First off I just want to let you know that I am a considerate style speaker and I am a great listener. I like to listen to what all my team members have to say and take that into consideration. I don’t like to competitive because something always goes wrong.

I am an action-oriented problem solver I don’t like to waste time and immediately start working on solving the problem.

I am a very busy person as you can see, I work full time and go to school full time. I tend to be very busy on the weekends with work and I also am a procrastinator person, so I tend to do a lot of last minute projects and that has to with interference of styles.

D#8 HW#5 Reflection

This week we were assigned to have our project #3 draft peer reviewed, and we had to review two other students. I reviewed Jennifer Nguyen and Alison Ridgeway’s drafts and I noticed that they planned everything for their usability project well. Their drafts gave me some tips for my usability test and I am thinking of using those ideas. I have received two reviews for my draft from two classmates and they were very helpful and gave me some good tip. The students that reviewed my drafts were Osmara Altenhof and William Kolstein.

D#6 HW#4 Reflection

This weeks assignment was pretty, but i was behind this week because I was working on Project 2 the Video Instructions. Project 1&2 were pretty intense and this week was kind of a catch up week for me. The work for this week mostly had to with reading and less writing. The course outcome for this week focused on defined purpose and learning how to identify and articulate a defined purpose in order to create detailed steps.