This week, our group spent most of our time in finishing writing our final proposal which was due on Thursday. When we started writing our proposal, we divided sections and assigned them to each of us. For example, we have sections of “problem description”, “objectives”, “solutions”, and “cost analysis”. Since I mainly summed up the current situation of the Career Center from our interviews and researches, I talked to my team members that I want to write that part. After each of us wrote own part, we met together and revised it to be completed. During our meeting to revise the proposal, I couldn’t join them perfectly to rewrite sentences because my grammar is not perfect as them. However, when I came up with some ideas that will be helpful to the proposal, I didn’t hesitate to say it to my teammates.
During the class 8A, we learned how to do presentation with effective slides. Since our group did not do well on making slides for our practice presentation, we learned a lot from this class to make a progress on making slides. For example, we put some pie charts to show the statistics to audiences. However, we learned that it is not helpful to only put some graphs or data on slides. Although it is visualized, audiences cannot understand when they were only provided these graphs; they don’t understand what these statistics or numbers actually mean.
During the class 8B, we wrote an executive summary of our proposal in class. Writing the executive summary helps me to understand our proposal deeper, and to prepare well for the presentation. It not only helped me understand our proposal deeper, but also helped me learn how to sum up efficiently in writing.
For my LDP, I went to the “Coffee Hour” to improve my communication skills. I talked to my American friends there about current situation. In the past, I only answered questions that I was asked by my friends when we were talking. But now, I am able to talk anything that I want to talk. I believe attending this event and having conversation helps me to have a comfortable communication with others. For instance, recently I am able to have a conversation with my group members not only talking about our course related thing but like our daily life. During the discussion, when I have an idea that I want to share, now I am able to put my hands up and say it voluntarily instead of waiting someone asking me. I hope this change will be my positive habit so that I will be more communicative person.