Through writing report in the class with two other NUS students, I could learn lots of things. There are two major points.
Firstly, I got the general skills to write official report.
Actually, writing official report itself was the first experience to me and I felt it was hard but really meaningful as well. I have once made questionnaire research about students’ recognition of garbage separation and the distribution of dust bins as one of the activities of Environmental society in my home university. I wrote research analysis in order to tell the results to university officials with my society member but it was quite imperfect. I am sure now that I can write more appropriate and appealing report.
Secondly, I have become to understand what the effective communication is like in writing reports.
First of all, I realized that making the most of backgrounds of each member is very important. Talking about the research topic (career guidance in the university education) with two
In addition to that, I found some points to be improved to get the effective communication in writing. As to me, most needed reform is the promptitude of the response. The delay of response cause the decline in the quality of report in that it shorten the time for editing again and put heavier demand for other members.
As a group, it may have been needed more to keep the objectivity of the analysis. We could interpret the survey result as more beneficial to us, but it lowers the credibility of the report and would not helpful for all in the long run.
From what I learnt in writing official report as I stated above, I believe that I can communicate more effectively in making writings in the rest of years as student and my future career.
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Hi Kazu,
Hope this report-writing project does not take a toll on you! =)
In my opinion, NUS is a "report writing" university (at least for Science faculty). So the students here are pretty used to writing reports. Hope you have adapted to our culture of report-writing.
Regarding the slow response rate, I agree that it is common when working in groups. That is why it is important to set a deadlne for replying to emails. For my group, whenever we sent out an email, we would send sms to inform that email was sent. So the other group members can check the email on the day itself and reply within the same day.
If sending sms is troublesome, then I think it would be good to ask everyone to check their email everyday. This "rule" should be set right from the start of the project.
Despites the various problems you face, hope you had a great time doing the project!
Hey Kazu,
Your persistance on accuracy of tone, data, charts and words used was very helpful to the project. I agree that objectivity is very important in interpreting the results. In particular, when results are interpreted with a biased mindset, one does not gain new knowledge because no new theories can be formed. When new insights are observed, I think it enriches our perceptions and broadens our minds.
Dear Kazu,
Hope you have improved your English after writing this survey report. I can sense the hunger for improvement, especially to be more English proficient, in you. That is very commendable. In addition, I agree with you that objectivity of the analysis is very critical. However, to be truly objective in reality is far more difficult. Most people cannot do that. I feel that the act of being totally objective is a gift.
Thank you for all the comments.
>Teresa
I had written lots of lab reports,but never the social science official reports so that I felt quite hard to make it.And I think NUS are really pro-group-work university (not only the group report but also presentaion).I wander how it is like in US and UK.
>Sheila & Victor
For the objectiveness,I had understood that I am the only member who is not related to the NUS career center.It might make me feel more conscious about the objectiveness.
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