Sunday, November 4, 2012

Project 2 Reflection: Feedback



I thought project two was a lot easier than project one. Last time I had a really hard time looking through a lens in order to evaluate and analyze my place, where as in this project it was only required to evaluate a certain place and its aspects using the evidence and support of a few sources relating to our place on campus that we chose.

I feel that I did the best in the annotation portion of the project. It was required that we choose 4 parts of our place relating to our topic and I found it very easy to find those four aspects I was going to evaluate. For my project I chose the SRC or student recreation center and then focused mainly on the Elliptical machines, the snack bar, the pool and the intramural fields outside. My proposed topic was the importance of staying fit and exercising while staying healthy, so I found that describing these four regions of the SRC gave me enough evidence to illustrate the importance of the student recreation center to not only the students of ASU but also the community as a whole.

The part I struggled most with was the map portion of the project and getting it all put together. I thought that it would definitely be the easiest but I ended up pending most of my time trying to figure out how to make the map, edit it and then embed it to my blog post. However, once I got the process down, it was much easier to fix for my final draft!

This project showed me the importance of evidence in evaluations. Although ones opinion can be important, it doesn’t necessarily mean much unless it’s of worth and credible. I learned that finding credible sources isn’t as easy as it seems either, in order to find the exact type of evidence that you want, you have to make sure that you do enough research to find these sources in order to make sure that their perspective of the proposed topic you choose match yours, or else the sources aren’t worth much proof.

I feel that I crafted a pretty good evaluation at least on my behalf, I sort of struggled getting started in the beginning only because I wasn’t exactly sure what was required in order to make the evaluation good enough with enough support and evidence. In the future, I plan on taking a little more time in order to make sure that I have a well thought argument to help make my evaluation stronger. Also getting a little more feedback would help I think because I may not be able to see my mistakes and another review could lead me on the right track!
I think that learning to write a well written evaluation will help with other essays that I may have to write in the future just because evaluations are important for arguments and proving ones opinion with support of credible sources, and I am sure that I will have to write more of these types of essays in the future. 

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