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Journal entry #5

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.

Journal Entry #3

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

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.

Journal Entry #1

September 3rd, 2020

Analysis of an Article Assignment

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.