For Project 2 I used the schema as a way to organize my thoughts and establish each point that I was making according to the section that I was in. In other words I used it was way to guide my writing and conceptualize what I wanted to put down for each section. I really found schema we developed helpful to me, I was able to see what I needed to present in each section. Understand what I had to establish according to our definitions. And there was enough flexibility within the schema to avoid the choppiness I found in project 2. I no way did I really feel constrained by this schema after our final adjustments to the structure. I think the only thing I find difficult in XML is not have spellcheck on to see if I have any errors with spelling or grammar. Sometimes I may mess something technical up which can be annoying but other than that writing in XML has been fine.
I found that understanding the rhetorical situations, forms of uptake and audience important when working on this project. I had to compose the project in way to achieve the uptake I would hope to occur after the proposal were to be submitted, but also understand why I am writing this and who it would be addressed to and how should I format it towards that audience and get my point across. I also found that looking at varying examples of proposals helped me get into a certain mindset of how to make this proposal.
For this project I think that I brought across my points really well and established the urgency of the situation well. I also thought that I gave a well thought out plan of how to go about executing the project. Where I think I could have improved on the project was maybe using some examples of previous projects or having some form of visual aid if it be a graph or picture to make my project multi-dimensional. Now looking back I really wish I had included an image, but it seems that I forgot about the ability to put in images. Overall I liked the way the assignment was set up and right now I can’t think of a way to improve it.
