Author Archives: Muaj Bin Mirza

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November 21st, 2020

In Thursday’s class, we had to post the topic of our proposals in less than 300 words. We also had to post a possible source that we could use for our proposals. The topic we chose here had to be our final topic and we can’t change it later. I was okay with this as, after doing some research on it, I am fairly confident with the new topic I chose, which was installing electric vehicle charging stations across New York City. I am continuing to do research on it, however, I am struggling on starting the proposal itself or the draft, or rather where or which part to start at. I’m doing a lot of research but not writing down as much. I really need to get started on writing the content, but I did make the structure of the proposal in Word.

Journal Entry #9

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November 19th 2020

For Tuesday’s class, we had to refine our ideas for topics we had last week. We were to post a progress update on our topic ideas. After reading the assignment description on the course site, I realized that my topic had to be limited to New York City. My original idea was about improving the internet infrastructure across the nation, so I couldn’t use it. I was considering making the topic about improving the internet in New York City only, but the internet infrastructure in New York is already pretty good. So, I decided to scrap the idea and go with establishing electric car charging stations across new york city. This would help reduce the amount of pollution caused by vehicle emissions, by promoting the use of electric cars. I feel a little bit more comfortable writting about this compared to my original idea.

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November 13th 2020

This week we got a day off on Tuesday’s class and got more time to work on our lab reports. I finished my report a few days prior, so I just fixed some spelling and grammar mistakes and submitted it today. On Thursday’s class, we had to think of the topic and the audience for our proposal assignments. We will get more details about it, next class. The topic I chose was providing internet to more places across the country and improving the internet infrastructure in general. I really believe that this would help our country overall to progress.

Journal Entry #7

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November 5th, 2020

Today we submitted the drafts for our lab reports. Admittedly, I was pretty stumped with this assignment. I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to write my topic – which was about how online tests adapt to rampant cheating – in the format of a lab report. After looking at the lab report drafts of my two classmates and some other students, I decided to change up my topic. I am now going to write about how readily and easily students think they will cheat. I made a poll on google forms and sent the link on to the discord servers of some of my classes that the students made.

Journal Entry #6

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October 25th 2020

In this weeks class, we wrote about our process for writing research projects before we start our lab reports. I think this one won’t be hard for me because I’m used to writing lab reports from Physics 207 lab this semester and Engineering 101 from last semester. So, I’m looking forward to it a bit.

Journal entry #5

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October 11th 2020

The professor broke us up into groups of three, to work on a memo about any problems with NYC infrastructure. I was grouped with Christian and Ousmane. First, we had to choose a topic to writer about. I suggested writing about the housing infrastructure, but in the posts we were all pretty unsure. I knew one of us had to step up, and although I usually don’t prefer leading such projects, I was pretty sure no one else would, so I connected to my team via discord, and decide to just go with the housing infrastructure. Then we had to choose roles, so, of course, I went with the topic supervisor, Christian the research director, and Ousmane the submission manager. We have to submit it on Monday, and we’re kind of rushing to get it done.

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September 26th 2020

This week, we only had one class. We submitted our first drafts of our technical descriptions. As I said in the previous entry, I made it more focused on the subject matter, taking out anything irrelevant, however, looking back at it after submitting, it felt a little bit boring. In the professors email, he said to make it more engaging and grabbing. I’m not exactly sure on how drastically i need to change everything, but I am going to add one or more graphic, and maybe organize the information better.

Journal Entry #3

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September 21st 2020

In last week’s first class, we had to brainstorm and free write about the objects or mechanisms we chose. And in the second class, we made an outline for the technical description. I felt like i added a little bit too much irrelevant information, and I also added my opinions, which are not supposed to be in technical descriptions. So, in the draft that we had to write after, I took out all what I thought was unnecessary and kept the description a little more focused on the subject.

Journal Entry #2

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September 10th, 2020

For the first class of this week, we each wrote about one of the principles of ethical communication and write up a scenario where it would be important. It was a pretty interesting topic. I chose not misleading readers as the most important to me. Later we chose an object or mechanism for our technical description assignments. I choose cherry mx red keys as a mechanism. On the second class of the week we wrote about who our audience would be for the descriptions as well as our purpose.

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September 3rd, 2020

Analysis of an Article Assignment

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This week, we from chose articles that we found interesting and had to write why we thought so, and later had to write an analysis of it identifying the various parts of it. We also picked one of the skills/qualities of successful workplace communicators to be the most important and wrote why we picked it, then had to create a fictional scenario where we use that skill. I piked ability to solve problem because i thought pretty much always come in handy, but others had some pretty good points on their picks as well.