Here is our Rough Draft, Courtney’s Progress Memo, Elizabeth’s Progress Memo, and My Progress Memo.
When writing our Rough Draft, we split up the sections of the Proposal Report. Elizabeth did the Background, Ideas for SGA, Research and Methods sections. Courtney did the Cover Memo for the SGA, Abstract, Table of Contents, Overview, Work Cited, and the Sample Student Apathy Survey. My sections were the Introduction, Research Analysis, and Conclusion.
I think that splitting up the work was a good idea. However, I think that we should have checked in with each other more often. Instead of checking with each other before the Rough Draft due date, we just wrote our sections by ourselves and then stapled them together to turn in. This would not have been a problem if we had been able to get together over the Thanksgiving holiday. Unfortunately, this was not the case. I feel that if we were able to get together inbetween the time we got our Rough Draft feedback back and the class period before the Proposal was due, we would have been able to write a more cohesive paper.
If we were to do this project again, I think we would take into account the Thanksgiving Day holiday. I do not think that we seriously considered how much time this break would consume or the fact that we would all rather be doing other things during Thanksgiving than writing an English paper. This mistake was most likely made because we made the timeline so far ahead of the holiday and the due date. In another attempt at this project, I think that we would most likely agree on an earlier date to have the Rough Drafts done by so that we would have time to get together and make sure that we were all on the same page. Also, an earlier date would give us time to add to and edit our Rough Drafts before meeting after the break to put them all together to make a final paper.
Another thing that may have helped when writing the Rough Draft, would be better communication between group members. For a good portion of the project, I think that the only thing the three of us agreed on was that none of us were thinking the same thing in terms of the paper, it’s purpose, and how well it met the requirements for the assignment. Part of the problem was that we all have other classes that are much more time consuming and that actually pertain directly to our major. This made it hard to put those classes and projects on the back burner inorder to focus more time on this paper. I think that if we had been able to get together more often or were better able to communicate through e-mail, our Rough Draft would have been easier to write.
