The schema has been almost completely helpful. It has helped keep me on track in my writing. It also serves as a good checklist on what to include. The only annoying thing about XML was that the oxygen editor doesn’t deal with implied line breaks the way I would like it to, so I need to manually insert them so I don’t end up with 400 character lines in my document. I found group work was more helpful as we could each use our strengths to help others with their weaknesses. For example I had strengths with XML and weaknesses with the design entry. I feel like I met my deadlines better on this schedule. Choosing the exact rhetorical situation to use the model on was the hardest part. There weren’t many Co-Op jobs on the Northeastern site yet and I ended up going with something I found on LinkedIn that I wasn’t particularly interested in.
