A midterm reflection on what we have learned so far in Professional Writing at Florida Gulf Coast University Fall 2014.

1. MIDTERM
REFLECTION
PROFFESIOANL WRITING 2014
BY: Heather Lake

2. What I Have
Learned

3. Importance of 5 C’s
• Who your writing for , your audience, makes a world
of difference (ex. Professor, business, co worker)
• Proofreading can save you from irreversible
mistakes (like sending the wrong email to your
boss)
• Research makes your writing stronger

4. Mediums for Every
Correspondence
• emails for shorter exchanges of information with
clients, co-workers, or customers
• Memos for internal communication
• Letters for formal communication
• Instant messages for quick real time updates and
questions
• Face-to-face for initial meetings to ensure long term
relationships

5. Assignments That
Helped Me

6. Analysis Assignment 1
• After doing this assignment I
learned what the analysis
assignments should look like
• Helped me learn what block style
looks like
• Your comments gave me the
direction to improve all future
assignments

7. Complaint Letter
• How to write an introduction for professional letter
• Less is more; unlike school essays you only use
important concise information
• How to use concepts from the textbook (like
goodwill, how bullets help, and closing with action
request)

8. Analysis Assignment 3
• Exemplifies the many things that can go wrong
if design principles are not followed
• How these principles really affect the reader
• Concepts such as text length, color scheme,
font size

9. Why Is This Information
Important

10. Why learn This?
• These principles help writing for future business classes
• The 5 C’s can be applied to all writing
• Help writing everyday formal letters, such as complaint
letters, fundraising letters, communication with
professors, or bosses
• Creating projects for classes that require design and
layout principles

11. How Will I Use This
In the Future

12. Job Market
• Creating cover letters and resumes
• How to communicate with
• perspective jobs
• What different mediums say about you as a worker
• Writing memos in the office
• Different communication ( co-workers, clients, and
CEOs)
• Dealing with creating presentations and websites

13. Education
• Contacting professors
• Appling to programs and
events
• More advanced papers
• Communicating with peers
• Better layout and design for
projects

14. Social life
• Fundraising letters and correspondence
• Contacting volunteer coordinators
• Working on projects in clubs and organizations
• Appling to study abroad programs

15. What's Ahead?
• I will continue to learn and grow with each
assignment
• I want to improve my proofreading skills
• As well as take more time to plan and organize
assignment
• And will continue to enjoy
• this class!

16. Work Cited
TEXTBOOK:
Alred, Gerald J., Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu. The Business Writer's
Handbook. Seventh ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2012. Print.
IMAGES:
https://www.drew.edu/undergraduate/what-you-learn/writing
http://youthvoices.net/discussion/education-equality-1
http://career-intelligence.com/cracking-hidden-job-market/
http://www.theproductivityexperts.com/do-you-have-a-clear-paper-flow/
http://buildyourenglishladder.com/2014/07/04/writing-an-english-cover-letter/
http://www.alliesout.org/act-now/volunteering-opportunities/
https://classroom.peoriaud.k12.az.us/sites/BChilds/Classroom%20Images/Forms/Dis
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