CWC Interview

1. The interview went well. Mary was very willing to help me out and give me everything that I needed for the project. She was excited and that made me excited to work for her and create something new for the organization.

2. I prepared by knowing that I needed for the project instead of being unprepared and not knowing what to tell her. She appreciated that I was prepared.

3. One thing that went well was that I didn't know if she would be willing to give me everything that she needed and the fact that she gave me everything really helped. Another thing was that since she was excited about what the final result would be it made me excited to work for her and the organization and I'm doing dreading the project :)

4. The only thing that could've gone better was the communication before the interview. Mary had been involved with a couple community events and wasn't able to respond in a timely fashion so that was really annoying. I had to stalk her, I felt bad, but at least she responded and was still willing to give me everything that I needed.

5. The questions were very useful because they helped me get to know Mary's organization and what they're all about. Also the questions help me learn what Mary expected.

6. All my questions were pretty useful. It was a good interview.

The 6 Steps

Technically professional writing is an art when you think about a professional document according to the 6 steps, but I on the other hand don't consider professional writing an art.

I understand that professional writing includes the Understanding Comics and also all forms of writing where the author is getting paid, but when I think of professional writing I just think about legal documents and just boring professional documents that have to be written by professional writers.

To me stuff like that I don't consider art. I know art comes in many forms, but this is one thing that I just don't consider art.

I need to improve my professional writing by being more professional. Right now I am too relaxed and sometimes not on top of my responsibilities and that just needs to change. If I am going to work for someone in the future and have coworkers then I need to be more dependable and responsible

University Usability

Brendan--San Diego State University

Greek Life: 57.4 seconds to find the greek life section on the website

Tuition: 31.3 seconds.

I asked Brendan to find greek life and tuition on the website. I expected him to find it a lot faster than he did but he was using his iphone so he didn't go as fast as I thought he would. Actual results are above.

My conclusion that every college websites are pretty easy to get around.

Team Report Reflection

I think our group was successful. I felt like we were successful because we all got along and because of that we were all willing to put effort into our assigned sections of the project. Also, we all thought our idea was a really good one so that made it easier to want to do the work for the project.

In the beginning two huge challenges were that one, some of the group were unable to meet at the designated times so that made it challenging because we had to be in contact by email, which was fine, but got a little confusing at times. Also, another challenge we faced was someone not stepping up and being the leader of the group because we definitely needed some guidance and a push in the right direction.

By the end of the project I think our biggest challenge was that people got lazy and forgot about deadlines and it became one person doing a lot of the work. I think the reason people got lazy was because the deadlines kept getting pushed back and then no one could remember what was due when. We had to keep reminding each other and it just got a little tense at one point.

We overcame the 2 challenges from the beginning because one we finally realized that we don't need to do every part of the project with everyone in the group. People ended up breaking off and doing their own part which helped because not all of us had time to do everything together. This worked out well for us because it ended up being easier to put everything together in the end. We also stayed in contact over email and everything we had we sent to each other. Everyone was always on the same page. I think Gary finally stepped up to guide and help us get to where we needed to be. He made sure that we gave him everything at one time so that he could put everything together and make it look professional.

As for the last challenge I don't think we overcame it, but fortunately the project is pretty much over. Like I said before I think the deadlines had a lot to do with this last challenge. In the beginning we had everything done by each deadline, but once they all started getting pushed back we started getting more lazy and forgetting about them.

My contributions to the project were helping with the survey and writing up the Solutions section of the proposal. I think I was successful. Gary did all the editing for the proposal and I'm pretty sure didn't change much of my section.

I don't think I would do anything differently. I was very happy with the group and all of their contributions and I think we did the best that we could in the time given. I think I would probably try and step up more and put more effort into the project.

I would give my team an A because not only did we work well together as a team but we also worked with all the challenges that we faced. I think everyone made an effort to make our proposal look and sound professional.

Nanowrimo

Genre: young adult

Audience: young adults, women, or who ever wants to read it

Plot: my experiences through life with family, friends, men, and travels

First line:

I ran to the door to stop him, but he was already gone.