Part one Interview activity
Presenting an interview without quoting: “Research at the Patricelli Lab”
This paper primarily focuses on structuring the existing systems and procedures within the Patricelli Lab. The interview with Erick was quite informative as it highlights the general framework from which Patricelli Lab operates in ensuring it meets its objectives. It elaborated the level of organization within the lab as well as the viable strategies used in the lab to ensure effectiveness within its discourse community.
The manner in which the writer presented the interview was quite clear, concise and straight to the primary objective of the exercise. However, the writer should have utilized bullets in the presentation of the interview. This could help the readers in gaining the outcomes of the interview process at glance; hence ensuring timeliness. Similarly, the writer could have utilized statistics and facts to further confirm the validity and reliability obtained from the interview.
Simple and Focused: Hiring at Starbucks
In this presentation, the writer primarily focused on analyzing the objective of acquiring competent employees within the highly competitive business environment. The presentation targeted the business community as its discourse community. The presentation further highlights the need for ensuring recommended candidates from a job interview possess the required skills and expertise that can enable them to render quality services.
The writer has presented a comprehensive result from the interview process. Through this, Claudia Gonzalez’s private life and work-life has been well documented. Understanding an individual’s private life is essential in understanding their work life and their level of competency. However, the writer failed to highlight the specific factors that make the business world highly competitive.
Complex and Utilizing Swales: And advisor for Wildlife Conservation Biology
The primary aim of this interview was to explore wildlife conservation biology as a discourse community. Danielle Huddlestun who is the respondent in the interview provides insightful information in regards to WFCB’s operation as a discourse community. She observes that individuals within this specific community are always connected with the common goal among them that results in a shared interest. Similarly, effective communication is also essential in promoting harmonious co-existence of the stakeholders within these groups.
The writer has comprehensively covered the various elements involved in this community. The coverage was quite extensive and used quotes from the respondents in stressing the essential points involved in the interview. However, considering the extensive coverage of the outcome from the interview the content is quite large in which there is the need to present the outcome in bullets which is crucial in saving time to the reader.
Part two genre analysis
“Chemical Engineers as a Discourse Community”
The writer in this presentation has concentrated on exploring the nature of the job involved in chemical engineering as a discourse community. This is in consideration of the insightful information presented in regards to the nature of the job involved in this discourse community. The presentation highlights that the job involves the use of calculus and chemical principles in accomplishing their objectives. Further, there is the use of excel in managing the available data. The presenter has also covered the data management process involved in this discourse community through the use of excel. Through all these the presentation has considered expertly covered the duties involved in the chemical engineering as a discourse community.
Addison Cheng – “The Significance of Empirical Reports in the Field of Animal Science”
The writer in this presentation primarily concentrated on exploring what knowledge an individual needs to possess to generate effective and informative writing in the field of animal science. The writer covered the articles written by Herron, Kirby-Madden and Lord, which have been considered as quite informative in the animal science field as a discourse community. Among the elements highlighted by the writer include the need for an abstract that acts as a summary of the content in the article. Similarly, writers in this field must have deep knowledge in regards to constructing a well-articulated introduction in regards to the problem being presented, method of data collection, the results as well as an analysis of the results to draw a conclusion that can be applied. The presentation further confirms the need for these from the article written by Wangdee, Leegwater, Heuven, van Steenbeek, Techakumphu and Hazewinkel in the same field.
Kristie Tjen – Managerial Economics
The writer in this article primarily concentrated on constructing managerial economics as a genre used in achieving effectiveness and efficiency within a business organization by enhancing its systems and procedures. The audience for this article is individual students undertaking managerial economics as a course. In this, it uses different theories like individual consumer and market demand theories. It also uses the theory of production and price determination in further presenting this case. The article also utilizes several concepts like the Lagrangian multiplier concept, opportunity costs, long-run isoquant curve and cost models which are essential in constructing graphs that can be used by individual companies in determining the best way they can employ the available scarce resources in achieving the organization’s objectives in a highly competitive business environment. These are essential among individual students in ensuring they become highly competitive managers in future.