Brutally Honest Self-Assessment

This is the first blog after the conclusion of project one. The submission of a project is the ultimate test of satisfaction while being the ultimate crossroads of turning control of the project over to someone else. Essentially, I will write about how much I really dislike my own writing.

As I hinted above in the introduction, I do not feel very confident about this project. I do however feel that I did the best of my abilities, that it fully meets the criteria laid out in the rubric and that it will be at least satisfactory. Many of my peers seemed to enjoy it when they were reading it, however I could not draw myself to agreeing with their assessment of my writing. Nevertheless, I struggled to find things that I wanted to eliminate or add for that matter; essentially I have been dealing with "writers block" this week. I thought the project was interesting, and my topic was interesting as well. However, I feel that I did not do the project or the topic justice.

The major weaknesses of the project still remain the flow of thoughts in the QRG. I am worried that I was unable to fulfill all the criteria of the rubric while still maintaining proper flow in the topic. I think that there are some parts of the project that could have been more elaborated on and meanwhile there are probably other parts of the project that I talked too much on and may have ruined the shortness of the QRG. This might be seen in a paragraph where I explain the controversy and the stakeholders sides by using new added quotes from congresspeople.

The major strengths of the project are probably the development of the stakeholders. Many of my peers noticed how much work I had put into developing and making sure that all the stakeholders are labeled and explained. The new quotes that I added for the final draft further explain why certain stakeholders, particularly politicians, feel the way they do. However I do admit that there can always be improvements to be made, the point at which the essay is turned in is when the amount of improvements that can be made without worrying about destroying something good slows to a gradual halt. I reached that point especially with consideration of the development of the stakeholders.

I feel that I managed my time quite well on this project. I didnt feel myself stressing over getting things done on time or worrying about running out of time. I feel that I put quite a lot of effort into this project, so much so that I was beginning to not be able to accurately look at the project through a critical lens. I made sure that I got everything done at least two days before the deadline in order to give me a break and recharge from the constant writing that this class requires.

Paul Reynolds, "Reflection", via Flickr, CCO license