A new month
Yesterday became a hard day for me. I had a paper due in my Technical Writing class. It started off as a simple proposal to do my analytical assignment for the class, but it didnt stay simple long. After I had re-typed the docuement into Word [for some reason Word doesn like open office docuemtns] I began working on formatting so that it looked like I had imagined in my head.
I had been sitting in bed most of the morining working on my laptop and had gotten a good looking memo written with the appropriate line spacing and formatting. My print is connected to my PC so I saved the docuement to my jump drive and hopped onto my PC to review it quickly and then get it printed off. As I was reviewing it, I found that all time I spent on formatting was wasted as none of it had stayed. So I began to fight it over and over and over again trying to get things too look the way I had them on my laptop. It didnt work. I ended up giving up and printing off a decent copy of the proposal to turn in. Its a new month.
Also in teaching my lab yesterday, I came to realize the importance of clarification. Well, specificity of things. In STAT 221 [Principles of Statistics] the point that the class and the course work drives home is clearly defining the terms in context of the problem. The IDEA there is specificity. Most of statistics are about a particular variable that we are trying to determine the mean value of the variable to draw inference on it.
So I have been trying to point out the most specific terms as possible there. The is one problem that I have found that people tend to be lazy in rewriting the parameter or even just writing the parameter in full context of the problem. The problem dealt with the mean oder thresholds of DMS in wine for wine tasters. [Techinically it is to be untrained wine-tasting students]. Most of the responses centered around "mena odor threshold of DMS" not really including the population which we want to make inferences on.
I almost feel guilty for marking off, but I feel that I stress the importance of specificity.