{"id":198,"date":"2025-12-05T02:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:12:46","slug":"skills-supporting-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/skills-supporting-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills &amp; Supporting Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Written Communication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artifact 1: Community Outreach Brochure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project required me to translate complex information about community services into simple, clear language for a public audience. I had to think carefully about tone, accessibility, and formatting, ensuring that the message was welcoming and easy to understand. The challenge was balancing professionalism with warmth, and this experience helped me improve how I adjust my writing style based on audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artifact 2: Professional Email Campaign for a Small Business<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The task required concise and persuasive communication, which pushed me to focus on clarity, purpose, and strong calls to action. This artifact demonstrates my ability to write strategically with a specific outcome in mind, a skill directly relevant to roles in administration, communication, or project management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artifact 3: Personal Blog Series on Career Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing consistently over time helped me refine my voice, structure longer discussions, and build confidence in my ability to communicate ideas publicly. This artifact highlights my ability to inform, engage, and educate an audience through writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Analytical Thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artifact 1: Personal Budget Forecasting Spreadsheet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project involved analyzing income, expenses, and long-term financial goals to create a clear projection model. I incorporated principles from mathematics and real-life consumer behavior to make the forecasting realistic. This assignment improved my ability to analyze numerical data, identify patterns, and make predictions, skills that translate well into careers involving planning, operations, or management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artifact 2: Social Media Algorithm Study<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a personal research project, I studied social media algorithms by comparing engagement metrics from different content strategies. This required collecting data, recognizing trends, and drawing conclusions about digital behavior. The interdisciplinary nature of this artifact, mixing technology, psychology, and communication helped me understand how different fields contribute to problem-solving. It strengthened my ability to look at problems from multiple angles before making decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written Communication Artifact 1: Community Outreach Brochure This project required me to translate complex information about community services into simple, clear language for a public audience. I had to think carefully about tone, accessibility, and formatting, ensuring that the message was welcoming and easy to understand. The challenge was balancing professionalism with warmth, and this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/skills-supporting-artifacts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skills &amp; Supporting Artifacts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31325,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/makyahharper493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}