CUNY Academic Commons | Melvin Sierra | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/melvs1233/activity/ Activity feed for Melvin Sierra. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6863edc4d21447a9af7b49118164c72f Melvin Sierra commented on the post, Don't read, skim!, on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/20/dont-read-skim/#comment-82 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 04:22:47 -0400 I normally skim through literature when it’s too long to read within 15-30 minutes, it’s a fast and easy way to get the information you need without all the bloat. Some of the things I do to help me skim is to loo […]

]]> d7b3edc032e66b05b43cdf79b8080b72 Melvin Sierra commented on the post, "The Accessibility Gap for Tech Users and Developers", on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/18/the-accessibility-gap-for-tech-users-and-developers/#comment-78 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:32:57 -0400 This week’s module really brought up the issues that disabled people face on a day-to-day basis. I honestly don’t think of these issues often, not because I choose to ignore it but because I personally have not […]

]]> 43466e29d37d79517f6e01b74908138f Melvin Sierra commented on the post, "Under Sampled Majority", on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/07/under-sampled-majority/#comment-61 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:29:41 -0400 This week’s module really brought up a topic that I was not exposed to or privy to. All these artificial intelligence implements often use the white population as test samples and often ignore or put other skin c […]

]]> 1d900661c554aa6046e8f2426740040d Melvin Sierra commented on the post, What do engineers write?, on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/09/23/what-do-engineers-write/#comment-48 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 22:40:23 -0400 This weeks module was very helpful in teaching me how to identify the author/creator of a piece of writing/communication. In some cases it’s rather easy to identify the author since their name is on the piece of […]

]]> 7ad6c524b9fb0753a32f8176b97476a7 Melvin Sierra commented on the post, Writing as mimicry, on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/09/16/writing-as-mimicry/#comment-47 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:29:11 -0400 The method that Dr. Budsaba Kanoksilapatham made was extremely helpful when I was reading the research paper I chose to work on. The method helped me realize that I can look for specific details in research papers […]

]]> a5da1a257b86c1cf33f0d8164a0bd2c1 Melvin Sierra commented on the post, Okay but what's writing?, on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/09/10/okay-but-whats-writing/#comment-28 Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:24:05 -0400 Throughout all of elementary school up till my junior year of high school I was always told to write essays using certain outlines and formats because they were “right”. This all changed for me during senior year […]

]]> 08908a4a7f1c5cb1e00a6b5fcb569f2b Melvin Sierra commented on the post, Science is... neutral?, on the groupblog Writing For Engineering https://wfe21007fall21.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/08/26/coming-soon/#comment-2 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:49:48 -0400 After some thinking I believe that we can never truly view things objectively, we can pretend to view it, but we will never fully achieve it. The drawing of the tiny little omniscient robots floating above the […]

]]> 657624781e3493f78dcc3e418e598768 Melvin Sierra became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/770301/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:21:24 -0400