Monday, April 9, 2007

Project Two

I felt that project two was a bit more difficult than project one because it seems like it was sort of an awkward in between stage while project one and three were for a specific reason. Project one was to really think out the problems of our service site and to get a strong sense of the site overall and project three seems to actually focus on researching assistance for our sites and to really feel like we’re going to make a difference. As I mentioned towards the beginning of the semester, I’m more of a doer than a planner so the idea of planning for project three with project two feels a bit unnecessary for me, despite the fact that I can understand that it really is important to slow down and take my time to do this things. When I wrote project one, it was really simple to map the entire thing out in my mind and just sit down and write, even if I didn’t go in order, it was simple to answer all the questions. Whereas when I wrote project two, I felt it was extremely necessary to take it one step at a time and I didn’t have that sense that it all fit together, but rather I felt that I had to really take the time to understand each topic throughout the paper, and it didn’t seem to flow as one the way project one did and the way that I imagine project three will work. Overall, I know that project two was an important step in the whole process of benefiting our sites through letter-writing, I just felt a bit awkward with it personally due to preferable writing styles.

1 comment:

athomas8 said...

I am the exact opposite and feel I always plan everything out before I write it but not that extensively. I also felt that my project 2 did not flow very well and it was hard to connect topics. On the other side though I think that now as I have started to write my project 3 letter is so much easier because I have already had to do all the research and instead of just not doing it when I am writing the letter, I have it by my side. I think this will end up making everyone's letters much more effective because we already have the research on context and audience etc. finished, so we can write in a well informed tone that I think will sound well in our letters.