Blogger Response March 23, 2015

In the beginning of the semester I didn’t have a clue about what any of the professional literacies were, but after week 7 and 8, I started to catch along with what they were and how to understand most of them. The teamwork and collaboration is basically what my group is doing at the moment with the project. The honesty, clarity, and accuracy were what I had to use in the first project that was assigned because it lead to high grade. The honesty is mainly emphasizing on the audience and how you can create a better connection with the two. Once the audience trusts you then there is no need in them being interested to what the topic is on because they will be focused from the beginning? Also, clarity played a big step in the formation of the project because if there isn’t a clear view of what you are explaining, then everyone will be confused. So, those are the things that I learned up until now.

Professional Literacies

The professional literacies would be a big help with the project because it will create a bigger picture for group. We could follow some guidelines from those certain literacies to form and perfect the way other students will look at our piece of art.  Also, professionalism and work ethic could help the cause because you never want to address the audience as a friend and keep it professional. Same thing with work ethic, you want to have a strong work ethic so that it is consistent and properly completed. Graphical communication could fall under the same category as professionalism because you would have to have the right materials and graphics for a presentation, so this would help the situation of staying consistent with the work ethic.

Chapter 17

In chapter 17, I thought the guidelines for the reader’s questions were very important because I could probably create my questions from the same model. The first question that I thought was important was what was the purpose of the report, what were the problems leading to the decision to perform the procedure, and what were the results (Markel, 470). These questions serve a purpose to my assignment because it is my job to interview the head director of the center assigned to my group. Well, I haven’t had much luck with an interview, but I could compose the questions from the outline given in the example. Our group is close to finishing the recommendation report and any information that we couldn’t get was replaced by a different set of information

Chapter 6

In chapter 6, I learned the guidelines for appropriate searching methods. The methods that I liked were being persistent, recording data carefully, and triangulating research methods (Markel, 123). Being persistent is very important because if you do not have the correct knowledge about a certain topic, it doesn’t hurt to ask questions or get some help on the topic. Recording data carefully is also an important aspect because if your data doesn’t match up with your paper, then the professor or audience will feel like you have just made up the information. That is the worst thing that could happen in a research project. Triangulating research methods also falls under important because it helps the audience understand how strong the source is and how consistent. The sources are the most important because it helps everyone know that you took the time to find the information and that it is correct.

Chapter 19

In chapter 19, it explains how like in chapter 18 that you have to present honest recommendations. Presenting examples helps the cause of giving honest information and effects how the audiences actions (Markel, 519). For the conclusions part, drawing a conclusion needs to be carefully about the results because if the there is one slip up then the results will be a lie. With the recommendation the question what should we do has to be addressed because then it is your responsibility to give explanations and talk about the topic intended (Markel, 523). The table of contents serves a purpose because it leads the readers to the right direction in case they want to find a certain topic or direction. Labeling this topic the right and correct way helps the cause of being consistent with the document. References help organize the documents because it again gives credit to individuals or to books that their ideas or words were used to help construct a document (Markel, 531).  All in all, I wanted to say that it was a great experience working with my group because they were so professional and on schedule.