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Homework: Evaluative Self Reflection Report Paper
Learning Outcomes
The following information includes the learning outcomes for the course (also included in the syllabus) and specific items you may want to consider as you frame your argument.
I. Analyze the audience, purpose, and context of technical communication projects, including cultural and ethical considerations
1. Identify and describe situations and constraints in your course activities, exercises, and homework.
2. Discuss how audiences shaped content in your course activities, exercises, and homework.
3. Discuss the role of technology in understanding your audiences and meeting their needs.
4. Discuss how you adapted a technical document for other cultural contexts. Why was this adaptation important?
5. Identify skills you used for successful cross-cultural communication.
6. Discuss research strategies you employed to learn about other cultures.
7. Identify ethically problematic communication situations. How did you address these situations?
8. Identify and describe your audiences for course activities, exercises, and homework.
II. Create technical documents of varied genres to solve practical problems
1. Explain how specific documents you wrote for major homework solved practical problems.
2. Discuss how you used technology to create documents to help solve problems.
III. Write effective technical prose.
1. Discuss how you edited for grammar, mechanics, and spelling in your technical documents.
2. Discuss how you edited for audience appropriate style (e.g., diction, syntax, paragraphs, and tone).
IV. Create documents and graphics using principles of effective information design
1. Discuss how you designed documents for internal consistency and readability, including design features such as headers, bullets, lists, and other advanced organizers and consistency in formatting elements.
2. Discuss how you designed documents for consistent appeal (aesthetic and professional) and usability, including the following design principles: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.
3. Identify and discuss technologies used to design convincing, effective, and usable documents.
V. Collaborate on technical communication projects.
1. Identify specific collaborative challenges in activities, exercises, or homework. How did you address these challenges?
2. Identify and discuss technologies used for collaboration. How successful were these technologies in organizing group work or in creating group discussion spaces?
VI. Critically evaluate and choose technologies and tools that are appropriate for technical communication projects.
Purpose
Evaluation and reflection have two MAJOR professional benefits: 1) they help you grow as a professional, and 2) they help organizations recognize necessary changes. Unreflective employees often "burn out" at their jobs or stagnate in professional ruts-never being promoted because they repeat the same problems. And unreflective companies won't be dynamic enough to adapt to changing environments. Organizations and professionals cannot afford to stagnate. Therefore, you will need to build the skills for accurate, honest reflection even in a busy working environment. This project is meant to help you practice that skill.
Rationale
This homework was designed by the English 2311 program to determine how well students met the course outcomes for the class. Using evidence from course homeworks, activities, and experiences, students should argue how they met each course outcome throughout the semester. So, your audience will be administrators in your program who could make a decision about course requirements.
Description
In this final homework, you will be evaluating the usefulness of this course for students with your future career goals, as well as showing the course outcomes you have learned. So, remember to connect the course outcomes to your future goal. You can thread this through your paper or discuss it more fully in your conclusion.
In this approximate2-page single-spaced report, you will discuss the projects, class activities, and lectures and how those tied into the course objectives, relating specifically what you did and learned this semester to your future career goals.
Your report will follow this basic outline:
1. Introduction: Describe your future career and the types of writing you expect to do.
2. Analysis: Under this section, you will have a heading for each of your course objective, where you will discuss what we did this semester, focusing on giving detailed examples of how you met these course objectives. You will discuss at least four course objectives out of the six listed on the next page.
• Your discussion of these course objective may overlap significantly. Therefore, you will want to organize your memo strategically. For instance, grouping like information together and using clear headings may be helpful. You can also organize by class units or class homework. There is more than one way to organize this document. Whatever organizational pattern you choose, make sure to utilize headings and design to make the structure clear for your audience. Don't forget to make clear claims and support these claims with specific examples, quotations, or strategies from your major homework documents or from your experiences with class activities, exercises, and major homework.
3. Conclusion: Give your opinion on whether or not this course is useful for people in your future career; look back at the intro for the types of writing you think you will do and evaluate whether or not this class will prepare you. Finally, recommend to your readers whether or not ENGL 2311 should be a required course for people in your major.