Group 8 - Week 1 Individual Report

Submitted by apersohn on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:53

This week was a tough one because we did not have much time to complete the proposal. I believe having a little more time would have been nice, but we are cutting it close here at the end of the semester. This week my group decided to split the project up into the four major documents due. Lindsay Petrovi did the bulk of the proposal. She did a well thought out rough draft. She posted it on Google Docs and then I gave feedback to what questions she still had about the proposal. Overall she did the bulk and my answers were small. I gave feedback about what I thought would be the tertiary audience and gatekeepers (although I couldn't think of any gatekeepers) and what some of the sources could be (I suggested getting energy information from the DOE website, mainly because this is a credible website to research renewable energy). As I didn't do much this week besides feedback, next week is my portion of the project - the Gantt Chart.

re: Group 8 - Week 1 Individual Report

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Submitted by jtirrell on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 15:54.

I would recommend against starting an individual report with a qualification. While I understand that you are being candid, such an opening frames the report negatively. The closing also states that you didn't participate much this week. This is also not a good frame for your report. Additionally, most of this post is about what Lindsay did. Make sure to keep the focus of these individual reports on your concrete contributions to the project. This is important, because your group mates will be reviewing these blogs later as a record of your value to the group.