Sunday, March 8, 2009

Progress Report

So right now we're trying to get out progress report together in an effort to finally send it off to Mt. Zion for their review. I was of a mind that a progress report would be quite easy and concise, allowing us to draft it momentarily even in professional format. But after reading chapter we had to go back and re-write the entire thing from scratch, amazing what reading can do for you(sarcasm?).

Anyhow, things are coming along slowly but surely now.. Everyone is so busy will this class and the others and the homework just keeps flowing in a steady stream.

Chapter 8 from Service-Learning

This chapter was probably my favorite amongst the rest as it provided some really detailed explanations on what you are supposed to have in a progress report. Through reading I realized just how different the actual format of progress reports are from what my group and I originally had in mind. I suppose we did not foresee these sorts of things as specific as they generally are.
The familiar purpose, audience and content are here though, and the intro body and conclusion are pretty much the same deal, just the design of the document itself was different. There was a section that focused on cutting out long phrases and using words with synonymous meanings to keep the report more concise, this was a big help when I re-read some of our earlier work.