Reflection on Informational Report

Reflection on Informational Report

The purpose of this assignment was to write an informational report on the use of writing in our major using academic and nonacademic sources and also adding interviews. My major is Health and Human Performance so I wrote how writing is important in this field of study, and what types are usually written for the careers in this field. This assignment taught me many new things about my major and writing in the career I want to pursue. After doing my research I found out that writing is a very important aspect in the careers for this field. Like for example, I want to be an athletic trainer someday so I searched for information on how writing impacts this job. Athletic trainers use writing mainly for keeping track of athletes’ rehabilitation progress and making workout plans. I had an idea of what athletic trainers did, but I didn't know they had to do a lot of writing. Most people assume that careers in Health and Human Performance don’t have to write like other careers. This is not true, all the careers I did research on for this field require some type of writing. It really depends on the job and degree you have for what type of writing you do, whether it’s academic or nonacademic.

Challenges I faced while writing this were finding enough credible sources on writing in this field. Most of the sites I found didn't really say much on writing, just a job description. I eventually found enough sources to incorporate in my report. Using the library database was extremely useful in finding scholarly papers for this field.

After writing this report, I feel I've become a more improved and effective writer. I learned how to write to inform the audience and use sources other than Google. My strengths are providing background knowledge on my topic and clearly giving evidence of the topics. Weaknesses I see in my writing are the use of ‘I’, ‘my’, and ‘you’. I tend to use these words a lot in papers, but I’m getting better at avoiding these first person words.

The group conference was useful because my partner gave me good information on my report, and told me things I should fix. Although group conferences are useful, I prefer individual conferences because I only have to worry about my paper instead of my partners.