Essay #2 Reflection
1) How did you progress from essay #1 to essay # 2?
On the first essay, I didn't really have any idea what a college level essay was supposed to look like. I automatically attempted to draft an essay according to my familiar high school standards, but that didn't work so well. Since the first essay, I learned a few crucial points. The most important to me right now was the idea of staying focused on my primary points.
If a blog post of mine was supposed to be about the Declaration of Independence, I should primarily stay centric upon that point. Sure, I have some room to navigate around similar subjects, but I should always keep the Declaration of Independence fresh in my mind so that I can always gravitate back to that.
I hope I show progress from my first essay to my midterm and now to my second "essay". I'm positive that I've learned so far so I'm sure it will show in my work.
2) How did your process mesh with your partner's?
As far as outlining and drafting is concerned, Cymone and I meshed pretty well. We had similar ideas, but even more importantly, we decided on central topics and how we would approach them. Although we had some confusion regarding when we would have certain aspects of the project completed, I suppose everything is going to work out just fine in the end.
I did learn that setting "sub-deadlines" is crucial to maintaining collaborative harmony in the project. On the next group project, I will most definitely set daily goals for the group to attain.
3) What made your collaboration work?
Essentially, our collaboration didn't work. That was our problem. It would be no help whatsoever to shrug off my end of the responsibility and say that I did MY part of the project. I guess there was never any MY part of the project and if we had a communication conflict, it was as much my fault as Cymone's.
As I said in the last response, I've decided to exercise different collaborative techniques that will help to remedy this problem.
On the first essay, I didn't really have any idea what a college level essay was supposed to look like. I automatically attempted to draft an essay according to my familiar high school standards, but that didn't work so well. Since the first essay, I learned a few crucial points. The most important to me right now was the idea of staying focused on my primary points.
If a blog post of mine was supposed to be about the Declaration of Independence, I should primarily stay centric upon that point. Sure, I have some room to navigate around similar subjects, but I should always keep the Declaration of Independence fresh in my mind so that I can always gravitate back to that.
I hope I show progress from my first essay to my midterm and now to my second "essay". I'm positive that I've learned so far so I'm sure it will show in my work.
2) How did your process mesh with your partner's?
As far as outlining and drafting is concerned, Cymone and I meshed pretty well. We had similar ideas, but even more importantly, we decided on central topics and how we would approach them. Although we had some confusion regarding when we would have certain aspects of the project completed, I suppose everything is going to work out just fine in the end.
I did learn that setting "sub-deadlines" is crucial to maintaining collaborative harmony in the project. On the next group project, I will most definitely set daily goals for the group to attain.
3) What made your collaboration work?
Essentially, our collaboration didn't work. That was our problem. It would be no help whatsoever to shrug off my end of the responsibility and say that I did MY part of the project. I guess there was never any MY part of the project and if we had a communication conflict, it was as much my fault as Cymone's.
As I said in the last response, I've decided to exercise different collaborative techniques that will help to remedy this problem.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
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