DD13HW4 Final Project #3

Team CGCR Consulting's FINAL REPORT is available here. Thank you!

DD12HW8 Reflect on Peer Review

Reviewing my peers' reports was helpful because it reminded me of all the checklists we need to use to review and edit our own draft. The first report I read was very technical and wordy, whereas the second report included shorter and more concise paragraphs. I hope to revise my team's draft to make it fall somewhere in between. I also saw a comment on one draft about what needs to be on the Table of Contents- that they can start with the Introduction section. 

There are also a handful of edits and additions we need to make to our report, such as Table of Contents, some sentence structure and wording of paragraphs, and Tip Sheet. Although my peers' Tip Sheets were visually appealing, they were difficult to read. I want to make sure we do not make that same mistake with ours. We also need to make some changes with our bibliography. We need to put our Works Cited/References page in alphabetical order and make sure our references and in-text citations all follow the same format. 

DD12HW5 Sentence Analysis

Here is the link to my Sentence Analysis document.


Example One

Before Sentence: Get to know your team.

After Sentence: Learn something about each new team member.

Pattern Used: Substitution helped me revise this sentence by replacing a single word with a word group. I also used modification by adding a modifier (new) to team member.


Example Two

Before Sentence: An online application such as Todoist can help keep tasks organized and allow access to all team members.

After Sentence: A free project management online application, such as Todoist, can help keep tasks organized, and features allow all team members to have access.

Pattern Used: Modification and Subordination helped me revise this sentence by adding modifiers to the subject.

DD12HW1 Analyze Ethical Considerations

Analyze Ethical Considerations

One important ethical consideration that exists with Project 3 is plagiarism. When conducting research and writing a report about findings, I know it is important to include a bibliography page and in-text citations. I will be sure to do this, and also to review my paragraphs and make sure if I am directly quoting that I use quotation marks. If I am paraphrasing, I will make sure to include in-text citations.  Groupthink is also an ethical consideration to be aware of in Project 3. We are working on a team project and want to be sure that we are working together and not participating in groupthink. Because I am aware of groupthink, I think it helps me make sure I am making ethical decisions. 

In the future, I need to be aware of ethical considerations. Just because the majority may be going along with an idea, I will not go along with a decision if I do not feel comfortable with it. I will also be sure to monitor ethical considerations such as falsifying or fabricating data, and using visual images that conceal the truth. In my Public Health profession, we often conduct research and review data. My organization puts a great emphasis on portraying data in an ethical manner and not editing data to make a graph look better. Plagiarism is also a concern. In my profession, we often have meetings where we brainstorm new health promotion messaging and programming. It is important to refer to research when presenting a new idea both in communication and on paper. When writing formal reports we always include bibliographies and in-text citations to give the authors credit. 

DD11HW2 Individual Resource Evaluation, Part 2

This article was published in 2012 and includes 12 different references, most of which are from peer-reviewed journals. Diversity in the workplace is defined and described, followed by strategies in managing diversity, and the description of the study itself. This article is organized and includes strengths, barriers and limitations to the study, which shows all various points of view (1). The tool used in this study was a validated tool developed by a team of researchers and professionals and the response rate was 88%, which is good; however, the authors did not provide information on how they distributed the survey and collected results. They are missing that in their methodology. Also, their sample size was 300 people, which was a decent sample size for this study, but may not be large enough to make generalizations across all workplaces (1).


1. Patrick, Harold Andrew, and Vincent Raj Kumar. Managing Workplace Diversity. Sage Open. 2012; 2(2): 2158244012444615. doi: 10.1177/2158244012444615.

DD10HW7 Synthesize Your Research, Part 2

Please click on the image above to zoom in. You can also view my mind map here. 

DD10HW6 Individual Resource Evaluation, Part 1

This article was published in 2010 which is relatively recent, considering it takes time to implement a study, write and article and then publish. The authors' biographies are included and show they all have experience in technology, technical writing, and communication. The evidence appears to be sufficient. There were 27 references, ranging in years and from a variety of journals. The authors also included limitations to their study, acknowledging there may have been self-report bias (1). I thought the findings of this article were interesting, yet agreeable. People feel more relaxed when joining a group and seeing a warm funny photo of the person as their profile picture, rather than a professional photo, which tells them "it's all business" (1). It was also noted that when a new person joins a group and receives an immediate IM from another team member, they feel welcome. I can understand this, but also have been in groups where this has occurred and it's because the person sending the IM wants to get started with the project quickly and down to business. This article provides results from participants' recording logs, which again could be bias, but it also could be an accurate portrayal.  The authors do a good job of making this known to the reader, including the limitations of the study and future recommendations (1).


1. Wojahn P, Taylor SK, Blicharz K. Forming groups into teams through virtual interactions:  Researching remote collaborators and “getting to know you.” 2010 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. 2010; 203-209. doi: 10.1109/IPCC.2010.5530009.