This document reflects on Evan Westerfield's learning in a business writing course. It summarizes the key lessons, including the Five Cs of clear, concise, complete, correct, and courteous writing. Evan learned to apply these principles in assignments and will use them for professional communication. Presentation design, persuasive messages, finding sources, and writing proposals and reports were also covered. Evan intends to apply these skills in future classes, work, and online interactions.

1. Final Course
Reflection
By: Evan Westerfield

2. The Five Cs
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3.
4.
5.
Clear
Concise
Complete
Correct
Courteous

3. What Did We Learn?
 We
learned The 5 C's that are essential to
writing professionally

4. How Did We Learn it?
 During
the Writing assignments WA3 and
WA4 students were asked to use the five
Cs and were graded using the five Cs as
a rubric.

5. Why is this learning important?
 The
five Cs are the foundation of business
writing and can be used throughout your
business career.

6. In what ways will you use this
learning?
I
will most likely use this learning in a
professional setting when writing
documents that others will read. I will also
use these skills to communicate with
professors in the more near future.

7. Module 5: Designing
Documents, Slides, and
Screens

8. What did you learn?
 In
this section we learned how to make
documents, web pages, and
presentation slides.

9. How did we learn it?
 We
did AA3 and reviewed some of the
worst web pages on the internet. We used
the youtube video Website Designs and
Tricks.

10. Why does this learning matter?
 This
learning is significant because many
documents, web pages, and
presentations get disregarded because of
their design flaws. Learning how to create
fluid and well organized documents can
prevent people from disregarding your
message.

11. In what ways will you use this
learning?
I
will use this learning when designing
anything that I need other people to read
in order to make my messages more
aesthetically pleasing.

12. Module 23: Short Reports

13. What did we learn?
 We
learned how to organize certain
reports and what information to include in
comparison, problem-solution, elimination
of alternatives, and general to particular
strategies.

14. How did you learn it?
 This
section had a powerpoint lesson and
was on the Unit three test.

15. Why is this learning important?
 This
learning will help you make reports
and will help you find an effective
strategy that can get your message
across in the best fashion.

16. Where will you use this
information?
I
will use this information to present
arguments and information to an
audience in an effective and firm
manner.

17. Module 22: Finding,
Analyzing, and
Documenting Information

18. What did we learn?
 In
Module 22 we learned about online
reliable databases, how to conduct
surveys, and documenting sources.

19. How did we learn it?
 There
was a PowerPoint presentation on
Module 22 and we were tested on it in
Unit Test 3.

20. Why is this learning important?
 This
learning is important when taking
surveys, finding reliable sources and also
documenting sources.

21. In what ways will you use this
learning?
I
will use this information whenever my
future classes require a survey be taken.
The guidelines available portray a very
good design on how a survey should be
taken.

22. Module 12: Persuasive
Messages

23. What did we learn?
 We
learned about different persuasive
patterns, subject lines, direct requests,
and problem solving style persuasive
requests.

24. How did we learn it?
 We
used some of the persuasive skills
learned in this chapter while writing WA3
where students requested that the One
Campus One Book committee pick their
particular recommendations.

25. Why is this learning important?
 Persuasiveness
can be very important to
getting your point across and to
explaining to people why your solution is
best.

26. How will you use this learning?
I
will use this whenever I need to write a
persuasive essay or in the workplace
when writing my boss a proposal.

27. Module 21: Proposals and
Progress Reports

28. What did we learn?
 Module
21 was about how to write
proposals and progress reports. In this
section we learned how to format, what
to include, and a few varieties of progress
reports and proposals.

29. How did we learn it?
 Chapter
21 was learned via online
PowerPoint.

30. Why is this learning important?
 Knowing
how to write proposals and
reports will allow you to provide
information to people regarding solutions
to problems, and plan making.

31. How will you use this?
I
will need to write reports and proposals
in my future job and I could use this
information to effectively draft them.

32. Social Media Supplementary
Materials: Week 11 Lesson
Folder

33. What did you learn?
 In
week 11 we learned about social
media’s grip on the world and how to
appropriately use social media.

34. How did you learn it?
 There
were several readings on social
media. Also students were required to
submit AA4 where companies had social
media disasters and students were to
analyze these debacles.

35. Why is this learning important?
 Social
media is very important to the
image of a company or an individual.
What is put on the profile can be very
good or very bad as shown in Analysis
Assignment 4.

36. How will you use this learning?
I
will use this information whenever I’m
using any of my social media networks
and have even turned my Twitter
account private since reading these
articles.