I plan to practice these goals because I know these are things I need to work on. I plan to show my progress day by day in codes and the research class. I am willing to do anything I can for an A.
8c: Develops clear, innovative central messages with significant supporting materials.
Have you ever read a passage, but you couldn’t quite understand the message or the point of what you just read? Yeah, me too. I’ve actually been having this problem for a while. I figured to understand the passage, you actually have to speak to the passage as to what you’re reading. My goal is to keep working on this because I firmly believe to be able to read, you must know how to write, and vice versa. My plan to assess this is by showing my work to others and putting it in a perspective that makes it make sense to my audience and not just myself, taking feedback from source analysis and other work assessments.
9b: Identifies and evaluate multiple approaches for solving problems.
I believe in the term ‘there’s always two sides to a story.’ I believe that applies for any and everything, if you think there is more solutions there definitely is. 97% percent of the time. My experience I personally have with identifying ‘more problems’, If I couldn’t find it, I would simply assume that it did not exist, or it was irrelevant. Which can I be honest? I still do it; it just needs more work. I believe no idea is wrong in no way, shape or form. I really want to try to understand the problem and brainstorm how to come up with a solution. We can show this by looking at not just one solution but looking at the problems around it that can affect the direct or indirect problem when it comes to the issue we are discussing: water. This can be found in either MC 1 or 2.
13a: Demonstrates a thorough understanding of context,audience and purpose.
I’ve always tried in my personal experience to understand one key part. Whether it be a passage, a person or why something may have occurred. I haven’t always been right. But to get here to reach to prove I understand, nothing is more effective than communication and engagement. When generally speaking about audience, you would ask certain questions about what the audience’s interest may be, or to understand a context, you would look more into it or see other’s perspective for a more efficient idea, same for purpose, you would ask why something is the way it is. My personal goal to understand what I’m interested or working on, my goal is to really connect why something is the way it is. We can look for this in source analysis, where I will describe who the author is, why they wrote the piece, and what its purpose is.
1c: Tailors communication strategies to effectively listen, express, and adapt to others to establish relationships both in person and online.
Learning how to communicate in different ways can be easy yet hard. When COVID hit, I had to adjust to a whole new environment, skill and people. It was not easy at first at all, considering I was also a freshman. I suppose you could say I have experience in it, but to say I’ve been good at it, is definitely an understatement. If I was asked to adapt to a new learning environment tomorrow and switch my whole process and routine I’m already used to, I would struggle by a long shot. I firmly believe that is a problem as well though. Anything can happen and I want to make sure I am skilled in every communication aspect there is. My overall goal with this is to hopefully be put in a scenario where I have to step out of my comfortable everyday communication strategy, to simply make room for nothing but growth. One thing that can be used in this goal is focusing on how to put it into other perspectives of others, for assessments like presentations, and group work projects.
2a: Systematically analyzes assumptions to develop logical plans to solve problems.
problem. Even if I have an assumption, I’ll stick with the assumption and not necessarily develop a logical plan. Something I have personally discovered is listing all the assumptions related to the problem, whether it be opinions, brainstorming thoughts, and beliefs. I want to work on this because this is not my strongest suite at all. Coming up with assumptions and turning them into overall logical solutions can definitely be rewarding. My goal is to show I can brainstorm and develop actual logical solutions. Putting in the effort to not make it seem like I only have one shot of doing something but getting criticism on my projects that I need more work on.
Overall, my goals are to not only complete these but making sure I understand them. Being a criminal justice major involves a lot of communication and problem solving.
Sincerely,
Tyauna Tomazzoli