4/25/2021

Hello everyone! I finished my first draft for the lab report and I’m very happy with how it turned out. After receiving my grades and feedback for the technical description and memo projects, I realized that I really need to work on my citations, especially the in text ones. In the technical description and memo assignments, I didn’t include any in text citations at all which is a problem because that is technically plagiarism. I’m using an idea that isn’t my own and not citing the proper source. Although I did include the source in the references page for both assignments, it’s still not enough because I need to cite the specific ideas that I got from each source. This is something I aimed to improve upon in my lab report which I did. I managed to cite all my sources and ideas, both in text and in the references section. It also helped me realize the importance of the in text citations because now my audience can differentiate between my ideas and the ideas of others. Granted, this assignment mainly focused on the ideas and research done by others simply because I didn’t conduct any labs or experiments on my own, but I still did include some of my own ideas which I obviously didn’t cite. I have to begin revising my first draft now and based on the feedback from my peers, there isn’t really much I need to change. The one major issue is that it’s too long and so I need to condense the information a little more which shouldn’t be too much of a problem. I’m eager to start working on the engineering proposal, since it’s the biggest assignment of the semester, and will require me to put together all the skills I’ve learned so far. But that’s it for now, I’ll be back next week!