User talk:Asandle1

This my discussion page Asandle1 (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2024 (PST)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time! I see that you had to fix your references after the accidental deletion, but you are not being penalized for that.
  • In the future, it might be helpful for you to make a list of items you need to complete for your journal page so that you can check them off.
• All of the requested navigation links were present and you invoked your template on your individual journal page.
• During the period of review, you made 68 edits to the wiki and wrote something in the summary field 95% of the time. Excellent--keep up the good work!
• All of the requested tasks were completed appropriately, except for the following:
  • Electronic Lab Notebook
    • The purpose that you stated is a _learning_ purpose, not the _scientific_ purpose of the exercise. You stated what you would learn as a person by doing the exercise instead of what scientific question it would answer. Besides learning the inheritance pattern of all the colors, the purpose of this assignment was to make a purple flower and to be able to explain why it is a purple flower.
    • Your methods section does not contain enough information for someone else to reproduce what you did. You needed to explicitly cite/hyperlink the instruction manual. The document attached does contain a record of your crosses, but it's a little difficult to follow. For example, for each cross you could have explicitly said "I crossed parent 1 and parent 2 because of this reason, and I got these results (colors and proportions of offspring). I interpreted these results to mean..., which led me to the next cross, etc. You have something like that in your notes, but it's very brief.
    • Your conclusion should then answer the specific question you posed in the purpose. The purpose was to make a purple flower and to explain why it was purple. So, you could have said that you obtained a purple flower by crossing true-breeding red and blue flowers. You attempted to make a true-breeding purple flower by mutation, but were unsuccessful.
  • Specific tasks
    • You needed to provide answers to (a) - (f) on pages I-9 and I-10, which included listing the alleles, genotypes, and phenotypes for all the colors, as well as stating the genotypes of the starting strains. You needed to explain why your purple flower was purple. You did reference the mutation part of the procedure.
  • Your Acknowledgments and References sections were completed properly.
    • In the future, just put all the Acknowledgments and References on your individual page, not the class journal page, even for the readings that were covered in the class journal. Please at least provide a link to the Khan Academy videos you watched (or the home page).
  • Make sure you continue to practice your wiki skills. For example, you could have provided a prettier label for the link to your document. Instead of doing [[Media:Steps_in_Making_a_Purple_Flower_Lab_notebook.pdf]], you could have put a label on it like this [[Media:Steps_in_Making_a_Purple_Flower_Lab_notebook.pdf | Purple Flower Lab Notebook]]
• Your comparison of a computer code and DNA code was very thoughtful. There is a field called synthetic biology where scientists are essentially constructing electronic-like circuits out of DNA, such as "AND" and "OR" gates, etc.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:38, 6 February 2024 (PST)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time!
• All of the tasks from the assignment were complete, except for the following which were incomplete or could show some improvement. You will be able to earn back points that you lost by making these corrections by the deadline for the Week 3 assignment.
  • Please add a snail mail address. You can use the departmental address for your department in the business school.(Complete)
  • The way you describe your work experience is a little vague. Think about how you would represent this on a resume or LinkedIn profile.
  • You wrote something in the summary field for 63/71 edits (89%) in the period of review which is very good. Remember, we are aiming for 100%.
  • There is code showing for "File:Wiki.png" at the top right of your page. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a picture or was just a test, but it should be removed to make your page look more professional.
  • You have provided links to web pages outside of the wiki in your references section. However, there are extra " [ ] " symbols appearing next to your links. Remember, links interior to the wiki use double square brackets and external links use single square brackets. Please fix your syntax to reflect this.
  • You have used several levels of sections, but they skip around a bit on your page. They should be nested so that "==" is used first, "===" is below that and "====" is below that. Going further to "=====" or "======" is not necessary for your page. See if you can organize it to just use those first three levels.
  • Please include a numbered list, not just a bullet point list.
  • You uploaded and linked to a file, but please fix the syntax so that the link gets a nicer looking label. Instead of [[Media: Andrew_Sandler_Evil_Essay_Final_Draft.pdf]] do something like this [[Media: Andrew_Sandler_Evil_Essay_Final_Draft.pdf | My essay]].
  • You created a template, but did not invoke it on your user page. Use the {{ }} to invoke your template on your page.
  • Make sure that you Acknowledgments and References section for Week 1 goes on your user page. In the future these sections will go on the individual journal entry pages.
  • Don't forget to sign your class journal entry with your wiki signature.
  • Looking ahead, your Week 2 shared reflection should be on the Class Journal Week 2, so you should delete it from your user page.
• I'm so glad to hear that the Janovy reading was a favorite for you!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:51, 25 January 2024 (PST)