First Assignment Reflection

After finishing the first assignment we had for this class I learned many things from the actual type of report that we had to do, to learning a few things about the review sessions that we had. I also learned a lot about the actual types of writing that are necessary when regarding the field of business. There are many different kinds of writing that someone in this career must create, but in the specific field I was researching and the people I interviewed I found that non-academic types of writing are much more common than lengthy informative academic pieces. I also found out that on the other hand when academic reports are required that they are very important for that particular business. I also learned a lot about myself when writing this report. I learned that I need to work on being more concise when writing an informational report and maybe for any type of writing I do. I learned some about what other people were writing there reports and picked up a few things from them as well as my instructor in the group review session.

In the field I was analyzing I figured that there would be a lot of basic types of writings like emails and memos and every day formats. I was write about that, but I did not know that there would be such a large amount of these writings in just one day. I also thought in some ways there would be a lot more academic reports. But after interviewing these owners Kirk Johnson and Karen Mckinley I found that there were in fact very few academic pieces written, but those academic pieces were extremely important to there business.

One major challenge I had was the actual interviews that I had to do which was the most important part to this whole report. I have never interviewed anyone other than my parents and friends and maybe a few teachers, so actually locating and scheduling people to talk to and to sit down or even just answer the questions through email was slightly tougher than I had thought. Another big issue I struggled with was the overall format and organization of the whole report and how it should correctly be done mostly because I have never done a report.

I learned a lot form the group conferences with another student and the professor that helped me greatly on my final report. But I think that maybe it would be easier to understand what the exact issues I had with my first draft. I think that if the time were split up into fifteen minutes for each student it would be easier to manage time, and I would be able to understand and figure out what the problems I had with my paper and learn how to fix these problems.