Three Learned Concepts

I learned that even though I majored in graphic communications for the purpose of focusing on my creatively and artistic ability, writing will still be a small but important role in my life. I learned this primarily through the interview process and through accumulating information for writing project one. When interviewing a professional in the graphic communications field, she stressed how important writing was and that the main form was through email. Writing also carries the important task of accountability throughout the workplace. Writing will always be present and accompany the tasks I will do in graphics. Images and words complement each other, and I learned that the combination of words and images can be greater than one or the other by themselves.

I learned the importance of making and keeping contacts, in the work place and outside of it. I learned this through our group project and again through the interview and job search documents process. Our group project went smoothly, due to the contact that my friend Hayden has with his uncle. My contact with Hayden lead to his contact with his uncle which resulted in our group project objective. Locating professionals to ask their advice for my resume or for time for an interview was easier because of the contacts I had already made in the field. Graphics requires that students complete two internships before they graduate. Because of the internship requirement and our reputable standing within the graphics industry that produced our personal job fair, we are taught to network from day one. Using my contacts from previous interviews and jobs in an English class was something I had not previously planned on. But having them showed the importance of making and keeping contacts. You never know where or when you are going to use them.

I learned that technical writing is far more diversified than I originally thought. When writing our own definition, writing a collaborative definition, and finally reading different passages about what others feel technical writing involves, I learned that technical writing can be found everywhere. I also learned that technical writing can have a variety of different definitions to different people.

After writing my three learned lessons, I find that each major assignment has found its way into the "how" each lesson was learned. The contact with a professional in an interview, individual and collaborative research that led up to the completion of project 1, the use of a contact in project 2, as well as someone who has job pull in my career field for the job documents all provided pieces that lead me to the results above. This class helped to establish the function of writing.