The student took a technical writing course taught by Professor Jacobson that illuminated new ideas and techniques. The coursework involved group projects, exercises using various technologies, proposals, and instructional materials. It helped the student recognize they were underutilizing their skills and motivated them to pursue a new job. The professor provided a flexible and supportive learning environment that improved the student's communication, presentation, and job searching skills.

1. Reflection Paper
By: Grayson Winterkamp
2311 Technical Writing

2. Audience: Professor Jacobson
 Coming into this course I have had
knowledge of resume building, as well as
speech.
 Professor Jacobson throughout the
course illuminated broader ideas and
techniques that I was not aware of.
 The way I look at things now almost is like
I’m having a complete second look at the
material. Revising is necessary.
 Communicating to employers when
following up is key. Also understanding
which appropriate job career became
more relevant.
 The expansion upon each students skills
were reflected towards myself that I felt
my current employment was way under
my skill level and chose to move on.
 Exercises that I participated in included
the use of technology in every aspect.
 I highly advise this when learning and
was a great tool especially when learning
unknown things such as the waterfall
technique.
 Proposals were completed, which was
interesting because the class was now
giving me a physical experience as well as
tool for job search.
 The search has many steps and were
important to me personally because I had
many steps that I had personally not
taken myself.
 The flexibility as well as personal
connection with each individual student
was outstanding in my opinion.
Professor style Job Search

3. Audience-Future Students
 Automatically from this first line, this class is a
must take.
 Attending class is a must as well as something I
looked forward too. Compared to my other
classes, I felt a lot more comfortable with the
environment.
 By implementing personality quizzes as well as
activities that included group activity migrated
everyone together. In management I will use
similar techniques with employers to therefore
bring everyone closer together.
 When being involved in group activities some
may feel nervous or at unease but this class
chopped the awkwardness out.
 Every student has the ability to put forth effort
and opinions that transfers over onto the work.
 Implementation of the group activity not also
incorporated speech skills that helped me get
up and project my public speaking .
 These skills will be used when interviewing for
certain jobs as well projecting my
entrepreneurial ideas.
 I had an instruction set for setting up an
aquarium, and for not been for the project, the
idea of addressing a business of setting up
wouldn't’t have been thought of.
 I’m trying to explain that the multiple
instruction sets practice as well as examples
formed the ideal instruction set. Students will
improve if you make the idea inspiring and
something important.
 Making the assignments personal a better
understanding and better work output is
released. I will understand and use this when
searching for another job for it to be something
reasonable but deserving of my time.
Skills to Eliminate Awkwardness Group activity and Instruction Take Away

4. Activities & Challenges
 Many challenges occur such as simply
getting to class myself. Patience with the
student returns the favor in the long run
such as simply coming to class everyday.
 Some technological ideas were different
as well as group activities were different
than anything I’d done. Overcoming
rough drafts problems with our group
after usability tests.
 A technique of this usability tests
reframed most of our dynamic raw
material and allowed us as a group to
overcome and make it simpler to read.
 A report memo and progress report
throughout the process allowed a simpler
improvement on said designs. The
challenge was worked out.
 All the activities done needed testing as
well as final testing. This was completed
by other classmates as well as group
members.
 This skill will be used in future job
applications as well as presenting official
information.
 Our group couldn’t meet always due to
schedules, so understanding the business
and profession of each individual was
overcome from the use of technology.
 Technology was able to bring the group
and class together for testing as well as
educate future ideas. Use tools such as
Google share to bring us into
communication.
Challenges Testing

5. My personal relations in my
education was emphasized by
my cultural understandings.
Activities were proven such as
connecting the work in relating
to personal background
Cultural
Connections and
Considerations
Strategies that l researched in other cultures
included things that were simply about my
culture.
I set out to discover what allows certain
instructional interests compared to certain
culture.
Did the race or said personal interests affect the
actual work provided and completed.
I believe a combination of instructional sets by
the professor allowed for a improved skill of
understanding and completing a own personal
instruction set.
I brought my ideas of past cultural ideas into
informational instructions. If I were to b making
Dutch food, I’d have a certain instructional set
tailored to the necessary food.
Strategies

6. Problematic Communication
Problems (Ethics)
 Students ethical responsibility to the
certain knowledge should be secure and
truthful. Credibility and originality is what
keeps work safe usable.
 Plagiarism as well as accidental
similarities is eliminated when the
planning and development are taken.
 Without certain steps that may be left out
problems are inevitable.
 In management and controlling projects,
certain steps are absolutely necessary.
 Techniques using bullet points and
limiting space allows for easiness of
readability.
 Complying to others schedules
is what is needed in actual life.
Things may not always be your
exact desirable ideal.
 The ethics of complying to
other people’s needs and
desires is what pays off for
personal favors in the end.
 Applying to group needs such
as not being able to show up
for certain meetings, pays off
because said person is willing
to work and get it done.
Techniques and Planning Ethics

7. Implementation of Visual Aids and
PowerPoint
 The use of visual aids allows
for the best representation of
information to audiences.
 I took away by spreading
things up and bulleting
information almost as a
description.
 The best way to understand
the message that is being
perceiving is by tagging a
picture and deciding if the
quality is sustainable for
further processing.
 Technology is a real modern use of
learning that for me personally allowed
for expansion upon the class.
 Putting the tools in our own personal
hands to find tools and understand the
movement to nobleness allows for
knowledge to flow.
 PowerPoint and other software's creates
an easy to read instruction set that gets
the point across.
 When presenting using public speaking,
the communication process was much
easier with the use of PowerPoint.
 It organized everything in a civil manner
that could be flipped through with the
use of speech to present the topic with
ease.

8.  The class started and was organized in a manner that was
simple and well organized.
 It continued in a projective manner in the Planning,
Development, Quality Assessment, Publication, and
conclusion just like the end slide. There is a process of
steps that must be followed correctly that makes the class
in ease.
 The order creates simplicity and knowledge upon
everything. Professor Jacobsen allowed for this class to
understood and enjoyable.
Conclusion