Project 2 Reflection: Resources Useful

Project two was a very time consuming assignment in which I put much effort.  Unlike project one, I feel that I did good job at analyzing and evaluating the area that I chose.  In project one I was being more descriptive and wrote my paper like it was a brochure for the building.   However, in this paper I did more critiquing, in order to evaluate, and I asked myself questions, in order to analyze. 

The word length for this project was very hard for me to reach at first.  For my draft I wrote a total of two thousand twenty-nine words and had a lot of filler space.  However, after the peer review and getting some feedback from professor Linthicum I was able to exceed the two thousand word minimum easily.  The information and hints that I obtained from my classmates and professor were very helpful and helped to look at the place from a different view.

Also, a big step for me in improvement in my writing and in the English class as a whole was attending several workshops and getting help from the writing center.  Before attending the workshop I had no idea how to organize my paper with the four annotations and synopsis, but I later learned how to do it and how my professor wanted it through a blog.  I was showed a link that took me to an example blog in which every element of the paper had been laid out.  Then, after attending the writing center, I was showed some flaws in my work and given ways to fix them along with many helpful tips for future writings.  The use of my resources, which I had never done in the past, was of overwhelming help.  

I felt like I had a good evaluation throughout my synopsis.  I had several different criteria in which I set for a good fitness center to meet and then explained how the Student Recreation Complex met them.  Now saying that, I do believe my paper still could have been improved and/or tweaked resulting in a better outcome.  Nonetheless, I feel a lot better about the way I wrote in project two than the way I wrote in project one. 

I am nit totally sure what I will be doing after college but this project has taught me a lot.  I never knew about the steps of evaluation that a paper needed to include when writing an evaluation.  I learned of the criteria and how to organize it in a paper as well as how rigorous these criteria needed to be.  At some point this new found knowledge will come in handy whether it be applying for a job, writing a review, or even critiquing an employees work in the future.