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The Feedback Cycle And...

I consider Phase 1 a trial run, for both the Professor and the group! There are always wrinkles to iron out, bugs to find, loopholes to close, etc.
So: Phase 1 gets full points as long as you made a good faith effort to plan out your Project - everyone did, great work!
For Phase 2, you'll address the feedback from Phase 1. If the feedback isn't addressed, those mark deductions continue to accrue .
Each rubric contains your hypothetical grade if no revisions are made
- From now on, you’ll always have 1 week or more to revise
- If there’s feedback that you considered, but ultimately decided against, you can push back in the comments
  - case dependent, prepare for pushback on the pushback

Corporate lingo

Don't forget! This course is about visualization, not data analysis
- of course, some analysis is involved, like deriving/transforming data

At some junctures, it might be very easy to get lost in the analysis or in the domain
Our goal is not solely to prove a hypothesis about data – it is to represent the data accurately with visual encodings
- “We want to prove that low income leads to obesity” --> “we want to visually show the correlations between income and obesity”

breaking down into {action, target} pairs (Chapter 3) will help you "stay in vis"

In general, avoid copy/paste – instead rephrase, turn it into an image with attribution, or (rarely) put in “quotes”
Avoid verbatim text at all costs
Write with specifics

What do you mean "specifics?"

I "specifically" wrote that text!

In the philosophy of academic writing/communication, this is called “Bullshit”

bullshit is defined as: speech intended to persuade without regard for evidence

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit]

This is huge!

The reason we're learning all this theory is so you don't speak bullshit when you talk about visualizations:

"it's good" ,"i like it and you should too" "its visually pleasing" etc.

The textbook helps you provide evidence to justify your statements

If you must copy-paste text (there isn’t always time to re-write things when skimming/scanning multiple papers), put it into a DIFFERENT DOCUMENT or tool than the one you’re using for composing your own text

Use a reference manager (Mendeley, Zotero, etc.) that will allow you to annotate a source, and correctly export perfect citations

You can naturally get rid of plagiarism by re-writing your text to be more concise in style
- Challenge yourself: how short can you get this sentence, with correct grammar and all the same information?
- Note: concise doesn't mean less information, it means dense information

Get in the habit of immediately copying and saving the link to something you might want to use. If you cannot find the source that you got your info/date/ideas from, do not use it
- Oooh, you can use your Group Padlet for this!

Tips for Resource Managers and Technical Writers

Tips for Resource Managers and Technical Writers

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