“Draft” Reflection
Firstly, as I will have only submitted one final version of the Project Proposal, I decided to write the “draft” reflection on the process my partner and I took to create an outline by which to write our papers.
Below are photos or two pages of written information that my partner and I created.
To be the structure for our papers. We went through the questions of the “Green Sheet” and talked through zoom about which pieces of information we both wanted to be in the proposal. We made sure to chat about each subject and create a few rudimentary outlines. For example; we created a generalized SMART goal for the project as well as a timeline. This was to ensure that there were no discrepancies between our final papers. After we were sure that we each had the list of things to be sure to add we went our separate ways and drafted our own copies of the “Green Sheet”.
This process was incredibly helpful at the time. It allowed us to bring together the many pieces of this assignment and condense it into the need-to-know information. It proved even more helpful when it came time to write the full report, as the small notes I left on the paper, as well as the actual information, reminded me of somethings I would have forgotten. It also kept me very focused and I was able to write the paper without having to look back through multiple projects and documents.
Final Reflection
As I said before, because I only submitted one copy, I thought I should use this reflection to talk about actually writing the proposal, instead of using the feedback.
To start, the outline was extremely helpful! It is a way that I like to start a lot of my papers because it streamlines the writing process. Condensing the research and information into one paper greatly reduces the number of tabs and clicking I have to do while writing, and knowing me, the more clicking I do the more distracted I end up being!
Along with that outline, I also decided to use the actual Green Sheet, instead of following the format and using a blank word document. I downloaded it from the UNE website and typed directly into that document, where the prompts were right in from of me, and the format was already done. This saved me a lot of time and energy as I can be a bit of a perfectionist when my margins don’t look even.
Typing right into the Green Sheet also opened my eyes to how easy it would be to submit the proposal legitimately. Not to say that tracking everyone down for signatures and approval wouldn’t be difficult, but I appreciate that the paperwork side of it is not daunting and excessive as paperwork can be sometimes.
Overall, I feel like this project was a great learning experience and something I never would have thought about on my own. Part of the reason this project, as well as STARS, was so interesting was because it was for our own school. I appreciate the decision by Alethea to choose UNE even though it was likely much more difficult than teaching us about STARS through more thorough examples posted by other universities. I hope that one day I will be able to see a fully recorded STARS report at UNE, and hopefully the category called “Incentives for Developing Courses” will earn 2 out of 2 points!
