Reflection About Technical Writing

I feel my biggest success was adjusting to the idea of technical writing and implementing what I have learned. Taking this class was a bit intimidating at first. I had never been involved in a class like this and with a name like Technical Writing, it sounded very strict, difficult, and the opposite of fun. Once I started doing assignments, my whole perspective on technical writing changed and I was more successful that I thought I would be. The biggest challenge of this course would definitely be the group projects. There were times when members would not do all the work they needed to be doing. When occasions like these arose, my solution was to pick up the slack in order to successfully complete the assignment and get a good grade. Though this tactic isn’t ideal, it worked. My favourite activity from this course was working with infographics. I am a very artistic person, so changing …show more content…
The things we did like looking up job listings and doing assignments on those as well as working on our resumes was all extremely helpful to me and I can use that information beyond this class. There isn’t too much I would say since this has honestly been a great class with a well designed curriculum. My only suggestion would be to try and put students who are equal in work ethic as well as quality of work in the same groups for team projects. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the class and how much useful information it has given to me, even though I am going into a field that would not use technical writing often like engineers and business majors would. I think I would have been comfortable if there were free programs (like Canva) we could use. Assignments can be challenging without the right kind of programs of software. As long as there was something easily accessible for everyone, I would have no problem with