Process of researching, organizing, and writing formal report draft:
Most of my research for the formal report is done when I was brainstorming for the proposal, I find that extremely helpful when I am writing the draft that I do not have to start from scratch. I really enjoyed organizing everything together, because I get a chance to see what is missing and then continue to work on the missing parts. I think that is all because I started early for the research, it is also the first time that I realize research or report shouldn’t be one week’s work, it should be progress weekly so that we can keep looking back and constantly editing. I think one of the biggest challenges for me while generating the draft is the data part. As I used surveys as my primary data source, I am a bit struggling to draw a solid conclusion from the survey result due to the limited quantity of the result received, also, now I look back on my survey, I feel like there are some important questions missing too, but for those missing questions, I used my secondary resources to address them, which is also fine but ideally they should be from the surveys.
The task of peer review:
I enjoyed reading my teammate Carol’s work a lot because I really relate to the topic of her report, which gives me a special perspective when reviewing her report. While reading her report, I find she did good work on presenting her attitude in her report, which I fail to do in my draft, I was a bit neutral, but now I think a bit of attitude would be better in presenting the urgency to solve the issue that I brought up. Also, I find Carol’s draft is mostly composed of results from the survey which makes the report more convincing, however, I cited many past research and journals and the survey analysis part is underweight. I learn it is important to achieve a balance between the primary data source and secondary data source in order to make the report more convincing.
link to my formal report draft: formal report draft