From the initial draft of project 2 I found that there were a lot of takeaways that I could use moving forward. Firstly I found that schema was appropriate for the rhetorical situation that I was responding to. I found that in the situation I made, it was necessary to create a proposal in order to get the proper course of action to correct or improve upon the situation. I found that working within a smaller group compared to a whole class there was a much more beneficial experience because there was a more specific direction that each one of us wanted to go in the group compared to the whole class. By that I mean that instead of having a schema developed by twenty something students with vaguer elements we were able to incorporate much more defined elements into our schema where we each develop a strong understanding of where, when and how to incorporate those elements into our work. Looking back at our schema I think that we did a very good job at defining the elements and the overall structure of a public initiative proposal, and gave ourselves a lot space to really develop our own unique form of that genre. Where I found some constrains within the schema was mostly trying have multiple elements of same kind or the same element with multiple attributes in the same section. For example if I wanted to put in a citation I could easily do so, but if I wanted to add a second citation element so that I could put in another citation on its own line, XML would not let me do so. For the multiple attributes part, I found that there may have been moments where I wanted to have more than one attribute within an element, for instance feasibility. But due to the design of the schema, I would have to add another feasibility element to select a different attribute instead of making it under one feasibility element. Another thing I would like to note is occasionally I found the definitions to some of our defined elements were similar to one and another which would sometimes confuse me. I found this to be the case when I was trying to develop my objective and goals for my first draft.
