Meleski+Interview

Questions: 1. What kinds of writing do you do in your field/job?  I write some papers now and then concerning research (development of new algorithms/approaches to solve problems which haven’t been studied before) or novel approaches or software tools I’ve created for use in teaching my courses. These papers are presented at conferences and sometimes published in the conference proceedings or a journal.

 2. Explain some of the writing you do on an average day?  As a professor teaching 4 courses per semester, my most frequent writing would be course-related things such as assignments, tests, course syllabi, daily PowerPoint presentation slides, and writing of C#, C++, and Visual Basic programs to use as examples in class. Other writing tasks besides the papers mentioned above ( which I only get to now & then when my teaching isn’t consuming all my time) include things like class observation reports, committee reports, and job performance evaluation letters.

 3. For what purposes do you write?  Teaching, committee work, & research.

 4. For what audiences do you write?  Students, co-workers, supervisors, and reviewers / interested professionals in the case of research.

 5. What do you get out of the writing you do?  Most of it fulfills various requirements of my job. Some of it helps me prepare and convey the information I cover in my classes. Some of it gives me a feeling of accomplishment or achievement and helps me develop and grow in my field and advance / get promoted in my job.

Summary: For this assignment, I decided to interview a computer science professor here at Bloomsburg University. Dr. Erik Wynters teaches a computer graphics course here and I decided to interview him because computer graphics is the one particular field in which I want to take part in as my career choice. To summarize what I had gathered from Dr. Wynters answers to my questions, even though he is not an actual computer graphics programmer or anything of that sort, most of the writing that Dr. Wynters does in this profession is along the lines of anything from research papers on the development of new approaches to solve problems which haven't been studied before to doing everyday lesson plans for each of his classes. Basically, most of his writing is toward a teaching environment and toward esteemed colleagues and associates.

Reaction: I learned that, once I hopefully fulfill a computer science major, this area of work is going to be a bit more difficult then writing research papers but instead writing code and displaying different graphics in order to complete huge projects given to me by a higher power. I hope to one day be a graphics artist for a major gaming developer or a statistical/information analysis for a major company like ESPN because I love sports and computer and that company makes those two go hand-and-hand.

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