Comments on: #Write: Visualize Your Progress

By: Paul Stiles

Paul Stiles — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:00:31 +0000

Although I did not use any visual aids in my progress report, the one I think is most beneficial would be the the “Chord chart” presented in the “How to Think Visually” infographic. One thing I tried to do in my genre report is to link together many of my interest into the report. Doing this would give it some extra utility when I plan on submitting a scientific article to a publisher in the future. Chord charts are great at presenting the information and tethering ideas and forming connections. Using a chord chart could visually show how I organized my thoughts.

By: KC Cowan

KC Cowan — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:15:13 +0000

I agree with Tom about his Gantt chart observation. If the Genre Analysis covered at least two weeks or more, reporting progress with the Gantt chart would have made more sense, as there would still be time left in between the beginning of the project and the progress report. Regardless, I did modify the one I had made for the Short Proposal to reflect any alterations I made to my schedule, and while there were very little tasks to complete, it got the job done.

By: Maia Dupes

Maia Dupes — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 03:20:38 +0000

I have always preferred visuals and graphics when I am trying to learn or understand something. I think since people’s dialogue varies so much, there is a lot of room for misinterpretation in writing, but visuals can be universal. However, I prefer the traditional graphics like pie charts or line graphs. In my opinion, some of the more detailed visuals like bubble and chord charts are a little over-complicated. Unless someone has seen them before, they can just make things harder to understand.

By: Tom Conroy

Tom Conroy — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:37:04 +0000

I think a Gantt chart, which was introduced last week, is the best way to visually display a schedule and the progress that is made. Gantt charts were designed for this purpose. I’m not certain I will use it in the progress report, however, because the tasks had such short time periods, I don’t think it would be that useful, but it’s the best option in my opinion.