Computer Architecture - Content Analysis- Reflective Journal

Reflective writing sample

Last week's lecture presented the idea that effective communication is the most powerful form of influence  [1] . My position as a student studying marketing makes this an important issue for me  [2]  and one I was thinking about while watching the 'The New Inventors' television program last Tuesday  [3] . The two 'inventors' (an odd name considering that, as Smith (2002) says, nobody thinks of things in a vacuum) were accompanied by their marketing people. The conversations were quite contrived, but also funny and enlightening. I realised that the marketing people used a certain form of evidence to persuade the viewers (us?) of the value of the inventions  [4] . To them, this value was determined solely by whether something could be bought or sold—in other words, whether something was 'marketable'. In contrast, the inventors seemed quite shy and reluctant to use anything more than technical language, almost as if this was the only evidence required – as if no further explanation was needed.

This difference forced me to reflect on the aims of the unit —how communication skills are not generic but differ according to time and place. Like what was discussed in the first lecture, these communication skills are the result of a form of triangulation,  [5] which I have summarise below.

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1.  Description of topic encountered in the unit.

2.  The author's voice is clear

3.  Introduces 'everyday' life experience

4.  The style is relatively informal, yet still uses full sentences

5.  Makes an explicit link between 'everyday' life and the topic

Source: The Learning & Career Hub UNSW (2019)

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