For this project, unlike with project one, I used the schema as a direct input for each draft of my writing. I filled each contextual section in with information piece by piece and then chose to read back over the piece as a whole to make sure that the document made sense as a whole as well. I felt that the schema that my group wrote together was a great representation of a very basic and overly generalized proposal. We left each of the sections broad enough in description that people could chose to take it wherever they wanted while still maintaining a logical flow. For my particular project I did not feel that this was quite as helpful as it could have been. Because there was a lot of disagreement certain sections were left out of the schema overall rather than making them possible optional sections which I would have liked to use. However, the format of our schema template was very straightforward and easy to use. The reading for me that I think helped the most with our genre analysis was the Spinuzzi article on ways to examine different assemblages of text. Being able to group different view points on genre situations was helpful because it helped me to fully grasp the complexity of the genre we were working in. Working with the group to create the schema and bring examples together for analysis was hugely beneficial. However, when writing the team design entry we had a difficult time making sure that all of our ideas were included and that the sections flowed together nicely. For this reason I think that maybe writing those individually and simply discussing them would have been more helpful. Overall I felt that this project was very manageable and was a useful topic to learn. The only thing I would change is maybe having a simpler explanation of each of the milestones that we were scheduled to meet prior to the start of the project. There were some times that I was just focused on the current step cause I wasn’t sure exactly what was coming next and having that more holistic understanding might have helped to get a better grasp on the project earlier on rather than just at the end.
