Project 2 Reflection: Connection

Project 2 was a great success for me and my final draft was completely different from my first draft. What I did well in Project 2 was finding places to support my thesis statement. The diverse places around Arizona State University provided perfect evaluation for my thesis statement. The Hayden Library lawn was a more open area compared to the underground of the Memorial Union. Another part of the project that I did pretty well in was establishing criteria to judge the places in Arizona State University. I felt like my criteria was a good basis and it was not based on music taste. Music is a risky thing to judge because there are so many genres. It is really based on your own taste for picking out the best music. My project focused on interacting with people rather than the picking out which music is the best. The parts of the project that I struggled with was incorporating the sources into the synopsis. The sources were related to my paper, but they were hard to connect it with the material when I was writing it. Another thing I struggled with when I was writing the paper was trying to not say “I” during the paper because when I was evaluating the different places I wanted to add my input into it. What I learned from writing in this paper is how to evaluate different places and not add your input into the paper, I struggled with it at first but I eventually did it.The way I can alter my writing process is when I get my thesis statement I need to put it in the first paragraph because my first draft of this project I wrote it near the end of the synopsis. I feel like I did craft a strong evaluation and that my thesis statement was solid. The criteria in my project was strong but it could have more points. The problem with having criteria for music is that there is a fine line between judging genres of music compared to the instruments being played. I feel like when I was evaluating the points in the paper I had to be careful to not judge the genre of the music. The three points in my paper for evaluating music was perfect because it did not try to judge the genre of the music. It was evaluating the place of the music, the instrument of the music, and whether the people in the group were interacting with each other. The way I can apply my work to outside the university is by learning how to evaluate more places around me. I could notice how different the area’s are and how similar they are.