Here is our Proposal Plan Memo.
I was in a group with Elizabeth Espie and Courtney Lewis. For our proposal subject we chose recycling on the Texas Tech campus. We chose this because it was something that was pretty easy to explain and write about. Also, it was something that we could all relate to. We all have been in buildings on and around campus that do not have easy to find or use recycling bins. Not to mention, these few recycling stations are only for paper.
We wrote this memo together. We all met at the library, sat down and wrote the memo. This worked out pretty well. We did not have very many issues except for minor editing and we did not all agree on how things should be done later. This was not much of a problem at the time because we did not have to actually do anything for the final project.
During our meeting we decided who was going to do what and when they were going to do it by. We took this opportunity to divide the group responsibilities up. Elizabeth was in charge of reasearch, I was in charge of editing, and Courtney was in charge of delegating responsibilities. We also decided that each person would have there parts of the project done the class period before they were due. This timeline was helpful because it helped to clear up any possible confusion that could occur later. It helped us to have a written timeline that we had all agreed on. This was important to me personally because it kept me from worrying that someone would not turn something in on time. I did not think that we would really stick to the guidelines and the timeline that we set up, but we did.
If we could do this again, I think that we would be more specific on our timeline. We did end up having a few problems with group members meeting the timeline, myself included. I think that if we had been more specific, there would have been less wiggle room when we were deciding how much of each of our memos and individual assignments would get done. We never had a problem with group members not turning their assignments in on the due dates. We only had problems getting our parts done by the dates that we agreed on as a group. A lot of the time we would just say what we planned on doing to our parts of the project by the time it was actually due. If we had a more specific timeline, I think that we would have been a lot more careful about sticking to it.
