{"id":1194,"date":"2021-08-27T22:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2021-08-27T22:31:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:31:59","slug":"unit-3-reflection-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/2021\/08\/27\/unit-3-reflection-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This course took me through a range of emotions. Initially, I was very excited to find out that this writing class on organizational culture would have a focus on diversity and inclusion. After all, I am very involved in my company\u2019s DEI committee. How exciting! However, when I learned that we\u2019d be sharing our work on the blog, I was horrified! I hadn\u2019t shared my \u201cin-progress\u201d writing with a group in a very long time. It\u2019s so personal<\/em><\/strong>! Nevertheless, it is extremely valuable to give and receive feedback. It makes us all better writers. I also learned so much from my classmates about some issues I knew very little about. After a couple of weeks of reading very interesting articles on diversity and inclusion, I started to feel fatigued by my involvement in both work and coursework as it related to racial equity. So, I turned my focus to non-racial D&I. I wrote about AI and its effects on people who are neurodivergent or disabled and seeking employment. I thought it was an important topic that not many were aware of. It was also an emotional respite for me. Later, after recharging, I knew my research project would need to focus on Black equity and inclusion because it was a part of my life experience. I understood that I would need to make a case for why it was particularly<\/em> necessary for Black people and would need evidence. This was especially important because I envisioned corporate leaders, who are often data-centric, reading my article. So, I concentrated on seeking out sources that provided data and first-hand accounts showing disparate treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tackling what many might see as a controversial topic, was going to need planning. For most of my life I just sat down and wrote. <\/em><\/strong>I didn\u2019t always have a plan. I wrote, then edited. I didn\u2019t think<\/em> about all the steps, I just did<\/em> it. This course forced me (in a good way) to break down my writing and research into pieces and plan it out. I found that the Focusing flowchart, Rounding out the Conversation and Notetaking exercises really helped me. All of these were visual representations of my thoughts and enabled me to see at a glance what I needed to do to firm up my ideas, as well as what wasn\u2019t<\/em> necessary for my final piece. This course assisted me with honing my skills. I must write grievances when I am acting in my role as a union representative. A grievance generally outlines all the wrongs committed against an employee by management, along with a request for restitution. It\u2019s important to amplify these offenses so that the evidence for restitution seems overwhelmingly in the employee\u2019s favor. I think my time spent on this coursework, and practice with case building, will certainly enhance my grievance writing skills. I have also learned about endurance. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever written this much in such a short period of time, and now I have a new appreciation for those who do it for a living! I have always enjoyed telling a story on paper (or maybe I should say \u201chaving a conversation\u201d on paper). A much-loved interest has definitely been reawakened!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This course took me through a range of emotions. Initially, I was very excited to find out that this writing class on organizational culture would have a focus on diversity and inclusion. After all, I am very involved in my company\u2019s DEI committee. How exciting! However, when I learned that we\u2019d be sharing our work … Continue reading “Unit 3 Reflection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[92,23,75,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}