Prospectus Workshop Summary

It was a pleasure reading the work of the members in my group, and also an education, since our interests lie in different areas of science. I did my best to give helpful and constructive criticism, although my classmates needed very little help. The quality of their work was impressive! I did give some helpful (I hope) suggestions about the methodological approach of the Literature Review, as well as pointing out a few grammatical erros, but other than that, there were no major areas of concern within my group. For myself, I worried mostly that my prospectus was too long and technical and that it would not be interesting enough. None of my group mates made any comments to that effect, so I left it pretty much intact except for some minor changes before posting my final paper as a Google doc. One of the things that was a bit cumbersome was some of the reformatting required when utilizing the wiki and google docs. All in all, it was a fairly painless process. The most difficult task for me was actually coming up with the questions for the review comments on the Research Design. The whole process has made me more confident with writing that is more technical than creative in nature. I think I've learned a great deal from this project.