It’s so quick that the term is going to end
again, and ALES 204 class will be really hard to forget. It has opened an
entirely new point of view towards social media for me, and I’m now hoping to
use social media more often.
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Author Unknown. (2010). Blog World [JPG].
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In the course work, I did a great amount of
writing in social media. Even though I did not participate in scientific
article assignment like my friend Feiyan did, I learned that it was important
to reference properly in social media to keep the writings to be academic.
However, the style of writing in social media is very different from a research
report, because the audience is the public and the style should not be so
serious. For example, the writing in a blog should be like a personal journal
that tells the feelings and experiences of the author, or like a conversation
that introduces knowledge to a friend. From the dietitians’ blogs I read during
the semester, I learned that blogs could be essential on the public health education. Before I knew about these blogs, I thought blogging was only a form of writing
diary, and only friends or people who care about me would read the blog posts.
But from reading the blogs of Registered Dietitians, I learned that anyone in
any field could get great benefits from blogging because it was a form of
communication within the field, and health professionals could use them to
raise the awareness of healthy facts in public and help eliminate the
misunderstanding in health beliefs.
In addition, I gained practical experiences
from Community Service Learning component of the class. During our research, we
found that not all the resources were well accredited, and we even found two
websites that gave exactly the same information, but neither of them had an
appropriate reference. Based on these phenomena, it could be seen that the
online resources still needed to be regulated for their reliability.
Furthermore, from the responses we collected from health care professionals, we
learned about their advice for preparing a medical appointment, and those
suggestions could also be applied to other types of appointment. For example,
the suggestions about writing down the questions before the appointment,
researching about the topic before the appointment, and keeping notes during
the appointment were all very practical communication skills.
I feel really thankful for ALES 204 class,
which has introduced me so much knowledge and technology, and I’m sure that my
learning from this class will be used in my future study and career.
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Links to my five comments:
1. Nian Liu’s “Communication…?”
2. Danielle Lu’s “Introductory Post.”
3. Yinglin Huang’s “Introductory Post”
4. Feiyan Zhou’s “Writing a Scientific Article”
5. Xuechan Yang’s “Introductory Post”
