Study Abroad Peru 2013: April 27: Day 1 (SLC to LIM)

Day One: Travel day! 

1:00 am - Now that I am officially 20, I decide to be responsible and get some sleep.

3:00 am - Drive to the Salt Lake City International Airport. So much for sleeping.

5:30 am - Board flight to Houston

6:00 am - Flight leaves for Houston

10:00 am - Arrive in Houston

Now we have a 5 hour layover in Houston. What do we do? 

Peru Study Abroad 2013: Just the beginning

For those of you paying attention, you'll know that I recently started the summer with a little trip out of the country. For two weeks starting April 27 I had the privilege of visiting the wonderful country of Peru during a Study Abroad class at Brigham Young University. It was probably my two of my favorite weeks in the approximately 1048 weeks I've been living on this beautiful planet. Because I haven't shared a lot about the time I spent their with many people (ok ok, I've told pretty much no one anything) I thought I'd try and recapture the experience in a series of blogposts, approximately one for each day I was there. By the end I will have an eternal record of the expereince, and hopefully you'll have enjoyed reliving the experience with me (and possibly thought about something new along the way!). So stay tuned for the adventure, but first a little background....

And Then There Was...a widget

In keeping with the purpose of this blog, to only share the educational moments in my life, I have decided to share one that also continually excites me despite the fact that it hasn't happened yet. What could this event be you ask? Well I'll let the widget on the right tell you...

Religion: a Paper

It would appear that all I know how to blog about is up coming papers I have to write! Well that's alright because this is now a certifiably critical portion of my writing process. So what's the topic of this term's paper? I don't know! The basic prompt is to research and write on "a topic about which you want to be clear concerning the LDS position".  What that topic will be for me remains to be seen! (Any ideas???) For your entertainment the rest of the 2 pages of assignment go something like this....

Art of Science: A Research Report

*For those of you following previous posts on my struggles to write this paper here is the closer you've been looking for! Enjoy!

I.                     INTRODUCTION

“This work is organized around the assumption that professionally trained people have non-verbalized thoughts worth publishing.” [1]

In recent years visual aids have accompanied the written word more frequently. This is especially true in scientific, engineer, and other technical writing. Technical writers make use of visuals because they work in visual fields, and many of the ideas that they have to communicate are best 'seen' and not 'read'. "Graphics of various kinds play a major role in technical writing, often presenting data and ideas more efficiently and precisely than words." [2]

Writing in Engineering:some-what-not-really-final draft

A continuation of the research paper I am writing on the topic of visuals in technical writing.

Abstract
 In the engineering and technological sciences researchers use the written word to communicate processes and ideas to their peers and validate their findings. Central to that communication is the use of diagrams, drawings, and other visual aids. Visuals not only communicate the data found in the process of research, but they can also show relationships,trends, the experimental process itself, and details of the machines and instrumentation used. Although visual communication in the technological sciences extends beyond pure research, this paper will focus mostly on the addition of visuals to research paper. This paper aims to foremost teach how to appropriately use visuals, and secondarily convince the reader of the centrality of visuals to the technical communicator.

Index Terms: Data Communication, Image Communication, Writing,

Writing in Engineering: Proposal

Since my last blog post I have interrupted my writing process with many mighty adventures which will hopefully fill a blog post soon to come. In the mean time my writing professor has instructed that I actually get around to writing this research paper. To this end I have written up the proposal for the project, and will be turning it in tomorrow. If you would like to view said paper I have put it online as Google Doc because the required format just doesn't fit into that of the post. I have put a brief outline here for those only mildly interested.