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Final Reflection

Of knowledge/experience I have attained

By Agha Ali

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OBJECTIVES

Rhetoric/Rhetorical SituationResume/Visual Resume

Mobile App

Usability Testing/Report

Video Presentation

Proposal

Writing

Proposal

Design

Resume/Visual Resume

Mobile App

Collaboration

Proposal

Video proposal

Usability testing/ Report

Mobile App


OBJECTIVES CONT

Applied Technology

Mobile App

Video Presentation

Ethics/Culture

Mobile App

Usability Testing


Rhetoric/Rhetorical Analysis

The main concept that we learned early in this class was the rhetoric/rhetoric analysis. Rhetoric, requires us to answer the five W’s (who, what, when, where, why) and H (how). This served as the basis of all our five units. In every unit, we had to know who our audience was, what was our plan, how are we going to execute/solve the problems that occurred, and etc.


WritingI came to this class not knowing how to write a business proposal or what a business proposal even was. I gained experienced in this style of writing in my technical communication class. When writing a proposal, you had to be very strict on formatting. Grammar had to be perfect, that is the general rule of thumb. Your tone had to be informative and has to catch the reader. A proposal is your pitch to whatever you are selling or promoting. Rhetorical analysis has to be taken in to consideration when writing it. Overall, as an engineer, this was a valuable lesson for me because in the future, I will have to write proposals for my classes and present them.


DESIGNStarting with the first unit, the resume. I entered this class not even having a resume or knowing how to even make one. The reason I have this under design is because a resume has to be a certain design/format, you have to have an idea on how and where the information belongs. Through an intensive process of using tables in word and the guidance of our professor, I was able to complete this task. Not only that, I was able to help my friends fix and design their resume.

The mobile app was all about how it was designed. The reason for this unit was to help and make it feasible for people to read a car manual app. We achieved that through designing a prototype app which made a car manual accessible through our phones. The main thought process went into the designing stage. Every detail had to be considered when it was being built. Form numbering to bullet points, to headers, and etc.


COLLABORATION

From unit two through unit five, we worked as a team to complete our tasks. We assigned tasks based on each team members strength. The main challenge we faced was how can we collaborate and share our data outside our classroom. Through various online tools such as google docs, we were able to complete our tasks with ease.

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ETHICS/CULTURE

When we started on our mobile app, the first question we asked was who was our audience? In this generation we accessed that smart phones are a part of our culture, nearly everyone had one, from a child to the elders . This was our audience. That is why we built the mobile app. An app can communicate with everyone from different backgrounds, to different age groups.

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When we began our usability testing the one thing that we were strict on was that our data and our experiment cannot be flawed. When we finished our usability testing we asked our testers to complete a survey. We could have asked them to give us a perfect score, but we did not. That would be unethical and does not help us in anyway. Those same results we used in our usability report. Through various SR reading we read the outcomes of companies being unethical. Therefore, in all of our units that required collecting data and writing reports we performed everything ethically and avoided misleading data and texts.


APPLIED TECHNOLOGY

Through the use of Marvel, we were able to create our prototype car manual app. I had never heard of Marvel before, it was an awesome tool to use to build an app. At first when we were assigned with this project we scared because none of us knew how to build an actual app. Through the use of Marvel we found confidence and actually learned how to build a prototype app. This project provided me with knowledge that I can later apply in my future classes for future engineering projects, which will make me stand out from the others.


APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CONT

After we created our app, we used a video presentation to present our app via YouTube. Technology gave us a server to display our app to our audience. We were able to capture a demonstration of our app with a camera and also provide a script for our audience to follow. Using different formats of technology in this class provided me with multiple ideas on how can present future various engineering projects via applied technology rather than just a simple powerpoint.


CONCLUSION

When I stepped in to this class I was expecting writing from day one till the semester ended, and as an engineer there nothing worse than writing. The outcome was completely different. From unit one through unit 5 this class provided me with various life skills. I learned and built an outstanding resume, learned and built a visual resume, which I had never even heard of, collaborated with my team and wrote a business proposal, and built an app. The tools and knowledge I received from this class will help me stand out above the others in my field of engineering.

Education

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