By: Anthony Mayor

Midterm Reflection Assignment

What I’ve LearnedIn the first half of the semester I’ve learned how to write formal letters of concern; write response letters and how to analyze website. Helping me to write in a more professional and successful

manner.

The Writing Process & Workplace TechnologyPurpose & Audience

Through this assignment I learned how to:• Identify and apply the five steps of successful business writing (e.g. preparation;

research, organization; writing and revising ) • Identifying your audience and effectively appealing to them• The importance of presentation of the information you want to communicate

successfully to the audience• How to direct my work properly for the intended audience• Effectively using workplace writing and identifying the technologies that are essential to

such writing processes.

General Principles of CorrespondenceComplaints & Adjustments

Through this assignment I learned how to:• Write effective business letters, memos and emails • Who is your audience and the style of writing you want to use to communicate the point

of your message• Implementing “action/honey” statements to leave a good tone with the reader• How deliver a message without going off point to the reader• Effectively writing a complaint letter

Audience

Design & VisualsBasic Design Principles

Through this assignment I learned how to:• How to format a document like charts, flow charts such as layout and design within documents• The importance of layout and design like grouping, repetition and contract, typography • Consider what outline to use for the message you are trying to get across such as headings,

columns, color, justification, etc. within your layout • Layout your document for visual effect by using flowcharts, graphs or tables, etc.

Analysis of Style & ClarityContent, Layout & Design/Business Writing Documents and Elements

Through this assignment I learned how to:• Review proposals; report such as feasibility report, incident/trouble reports, recommendation

report, progress reports, etc. • Analyze your audience; visual appeal; dividing writing into manageable segments; using poised

and positive constructive tone • Effectively designing websites • Understand the importance of layout, clarity and simplification of a website

How was it learned• I was able to learn all of the different forms of writing by reading the contents in our Business

Writers Companion book. Specifically important to this process was learning the five steps of successful business writing. I learned by viewing the different videos our professor uploaded online. By actually doing peer reviews and getting feedback from other peers in our class, I learned how to better understand some of the assignments given to us for review and correction. There is no single assignment that I can relate the five steps too, because preparation, research, organization, writing, and revision were apart of all assignments.

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How was it learned

• I learned how to direct work properly for the intended audience by first reading and thoroughly going through chapter one. Chapter two helped me to understand the different technologies available and how to adapt them to different types of business communications (such as text messages, blogs, social media, etc.) What really helped me get a more clear understanding of the “Five Steps to Successful Writing” was the contents I read and the notes I took in Chapter 4. Learning the general principles on emails, letters and memos was important information that I was able to apply to my WA1 assignment. Chapter Ten on Style and Clarity was a really intriguing chapter because of the fact that it helped me develop a style that I believe to be a clear and effective style in my writing.

How was it learned• Effectively managing the physical appearance of a document and or

presentation is very important in professional writing. Although I learned about all of this throughout chapter 7, I learned more about this by analyzing the content, and layout and design of a poorly designed website in Analysis Assignment 3. I was really able to understand how important the physical appearance of an document matters, when trying to be appealing to the audience.

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Why it mattersAll this learning matters to me because of the following reasons: 1. Most importantly learning all of this matters to me, because I intend to make it far in the

business world and you never know what business opportunities will come my way. That being said, being able to write effective and clear business documents, I feel will give me an advantage in the business world. Knowing who is your audience and how to impress them in the business world I feel will be key to my success.

2. When I have my own business venture I want to be able to design a website that would grow my business. The information I’ve learned so far would enable me to help design a layout for my website that would be captivating to all audiences and would use little tricks in order to draw in the audience to the point where they want to know more about my company.

I’m not really sure, how what I have learned so far will help me in future courses because I have yet to embark on a course that requires such attention to the details I’ve learned. I feel that my goals when writing a document have been set to a higher level with the knowledge I have gained thus far in this course. There is always room for improvement in everything that we do in life. I will set higher yet realistic goals in my preparation when doing research papers and writing important letters to during the course of obtaining my college degree.