To: Prof.

Tarabrina
From: Seth Payson
For: ENGL 2210
Date: April 1, 2022

Hello,

Throughout the course of this class, I have learned many things, and I have also fine-tuned many
skills in which I already had. All of these skills that I have learned and all of them that I have
practiced are important skills and will most certainly help me in my future endeavors and in the
workforce.

This course covered the entire writing process and much more. For starters, I learned the
importance of project planning, and the necessity for solid research in order to compose technical
documents such as our recommendations report. Secondly, and one objective that I really want to
focus on is project analysis. Basically, identifying your audience and catering to their needs is
something really important in writing and in the workforce. Knowing how to cater to your
audiences needs can prevent awkward circumstances and discomfort for future customers and
clients.

Two more things that I believe work hand in hand is content development and organizational
design. Understanding your genre and writing according, directly falls in line with the
organizational design of your document. Your purposed should be developed around the same
time as your genre is being chosen. With a clear genre and purpose, developing your research
question and organizing all of your research and information becomes much easier.

Transitioning onto communication, another important aspect in the workforce and in writing. I
composed a set of emails in a professional setting that simulated actual emails in the workforce.
Then, I composed a video tutorial and a recommendations report which included many visual
aspects for the viewer. Visual communication can serve much more of a purpose than simple
pictures, it can convey information in the form of graphs, tables, presentations, etc. In my
opinion, the inclusion of charts and tables in a document conveys more information than if it was
written into the document. They are more visually appealing and do not bore the viewer. In the
future, I plan on using more visuals in order to communicate with others more effectively.

To communicate effectively, you also need to have good experience and expertise in managing
your content. Knowing what to use and how to use it, one thing that I touch on a lot is including
only the necessary information and the most important supporting information into your
documents, emails, etc. This ensures that the viewer does not get sidetracked reading a lengthy
piece, lengthy and boring pieces often tend to be skipped over and picked through by the viewer.
Then, your viewer may miss important points in your message.

Before we get to what may be the most important learning outcome in this class, I’d like to touch
on the fact that no document or piece of work can be built to the best ability of a writer on the
first try. Documents need to be reviewed and edited to ensure a fine-tuned final product.
Everyone may find different ways to do this, however, over the course of the semester I found
great importance in the perspective of others and used their comments to elevate my work to the
next level. That is what I found worked for me, and I plan on using that in my future.

Lastly, each and every piece of work you create needs to be delivered in an appropriate and
effective way. One thing that I loved about this class was the delivery of all of our work. Almost
every project was delivered in a different way, and I learned a lot. I would say my favorite and
most improved upon aspect of delivery was by video. I had never created any sort of video like I
had in project two. I had fun with the project and learned a lot along the way, such as how to edit
videos and create voiceovers. You never know where you may end up in the future and one day
this may serve to be a beneficial skill for me!

In closing, this class was very beneficial in developing and practicing important strategies and
techniques that can be used not only in writing but in the workplace as well and I am grateful for
what was learned over these last few months.

Thank you,

Seth Payson