Here is our Formal Group Proposal Report.
In the end, I think our report turned out well. We had a lot of trouble getting everything together. Once it was all put together, though, it worked out alright.
We did not sit down together as a group to write our final report. Although, before we each wrote our final drafts of our sections, we were able to get together and make sure that each of us was on the right page. This was a problem that we all knew was happening with the rest of the memos leading up to this one. I think this is why we all made sure to get together before it was put together as a final draft.
I did the final editing for this memo. When editing it, I put all of our pages in the correct order and then I typed them up. I typed each page up individually to make sure that I did not miss any serious mistakes that needed to be fixed. This also helped me to make sure that the entire paper used the same wording and the same tense. As I went through the paper, I reworded each person’s sections so they were the same. This made it easier for me as the group editor. This was much easier than pulling up an already typed paper in word and trying to go through and delete parts of sentences and replace them with my corrections. I tried to do this with past memos and the sentences did not make very much sense. This method helped me to make sure that I was not making my corrections in a different tense than the paper was originally written. It also kept me from putting my corrections in the wrong place in a sentence. It may seem like this method would take a long time, but it was actually easier for me in the long run.
If we could do this again, I would suggest that we choose a more lighthearted subject. I would suggest this because it would be easy to find something that did not require a lot of research or background knowledge. This would have been helpful because it would not be as time consuming as the Recycling at Texas Tech Proposal that we ended up writing. Because this report took so much time to get together and to research, it was much more of a hassel than it had to be. I think that by picking this subject we made the project that much harder on ourselves.
