Summary of the Journal

The article, On Developing the Writing Skill Course for Accounting Students, mentions that California State University in Stanislaus has implemented a new writing proficiency course for accounting students due to the lack of accounting-related writing intensive courses. It is intended for enhancing the writing knowledge and skills needed for accounting discipline like professional writing for business decision or legal purposes. It also serves as an alternative for fulfilling the Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement. The implementation of this new course has caused a controversy among students. Some of them appreciates it based on an additional selection of writing intensive course while some depreciates it because it substitutes the time of taking other business writing intensive courses which are essential for accounting students.

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"Strong Poster Presentation Examples" Response

I am happy to see those poster examples included in the PowerPoint. Those examples are attractive and easy to read. Collected information is analyzed and presented into different sections like introduction, method, result and so on. It is clear and easy to understand. It gives me ideas of how to do my poster project and what method should I use. Also, I recognize that visual aids are important for attracting audience. I will try my best to find some attractive visual aids online. In addition, I will spend some time to decorate the background of the poster to make it look more appealing. Our group will take those poster samples as reference and try to organize the collected data as shown in those poster samples.

Response on Designing Conference's Posters

After reading the article, I recognize how a conference poster should be and look like. Basically, a conference poster has to be divided into several sections with each section containing around 200 words. We have to pay attention on the size of text and the format of the title and subtitles. I also have to aware of the font color to make sure whether it is clear enough for the audience to read. Before I did not really pay attention about that, however, now I know I should choose clear font like Time Roman for the title and subtitles. The font color I choose should not be similar to the background color. Also, I understand that a recommended poster should contain words less than 800 so that readers will not be tired of reading the poster. I will bear all those tips in mind in doing the poster assignment.

Response on the posters

After taking a look on the posters from the Powerpoint, I got some ideas of how to do the poster assignment. I know I should divide the poster with several parts. Each part should have a title. And I will elaborate the information into bullet point form so that my audience can be easy to read and understand. Also, I will try to make my poster to be creative and interesting. I am going to collect information on the coming days so discuss with my peer which type of information should go onto the poster.

Reading Response #4

I have done several scientific writing before. They are far different from the type of writing we did in English classes. Those scientific writing focuses on precision and accuracy. They are usually divided into sections and each sections talks about one thing. This organization helps inform a clear message to the reader. What I required to write in chemistry and biology classes is lab report, which is a type of scientific writing. Whatever I wrote had to be based on facts and objective. I like scientific writing as I don't have to think about my opinion since the content is relatively objective and is mainly based on truth and evidence. Through writing the lab reports, I probably can learn some scientific knowledge and know how to write in a clear and formal way.

Reading Response #3

     The reading this week is mainly about reflection and revision. It is something similar to what we are doing now. We are assigned to think about the process of writing and write our own reflections through out the process. At the beginning, I had the same feeling as the author that I thought this reflection process was a bit waste of time. What we wrote is informal and under no requirement. Nothing was learned. However, when we have done several pieces of reflection, I changed my mind. I started to recognize the importance of the reflection and revision process. It helps us to develop an attitude to admit what we got wrong and make changes to what we have done. It is simply a positive attitude required in our life to admit failure and make changes for progression.

Reading Response #2

     I totally agree with the myths that Lennie mentioned in the reading book as I did believe in some of those when I was a writing beginner. For example, I believed that there was a particular rule that I could follow for writing. However, when I continuously learned the writing skills from the writing classes, I found that myth was totally wrong. What is true is that writing is a cycle of brainstorming, drafting, editing, and revising. None of these steps can be eliminated. Moreover, I used to believe that a perfect draft had to be prepared for a good writing. Now I know it is totally wrong. We don't need to prepare a perfect draft as we will revise it later anyway. In addition, at the time when I got a poor grade in my writing assignment, I thought it was because I was not a genius in writing. However, through the time I improved my writing and got a better grade, I recognized that everyone can improve and write better as long as you recognized the mistakes of your writing.