Preparing the Formal Draft
It’s finally came to the time to prepare the formal report. Having built up to this moment since mid June, spending time brainstorming the right question to ask, the outline of the report, the survey questions, and finally to prepare the draft itself.
The most difficult part about writing the formal report was to find a balance between presenting all the information but at an efficient manner for the audience. There were many times that I debated whether to write out the graphs (which would look longer on paper), or to use a chart / table / list to present it for ease of reading.
The other part was given the small sample size of the responses, I had to modify the report accordingly.
Peer Review Process
One of the most confusing part of the peer review process was gauging if the team member’s report had the right amount of information, presented in the right manner. I personally lean towards using more graphs, charts, and tables (and less words) to avoid overloading my readers with information. However, I discovered that this sentiment isn’t shared among my team members. In fact, it’s kind of interesting that while I found Luke’s report to be too wordy, he thought mine needed more information. But what is the information I needed? My report was designed to present the effectiveness of different garbage classification policy across China. I could obviously Google answers on other country’s garbage classification policy. But then I’d be doing a report on presenting the best garbage classification policy, rather than my intended report which is to provide feedback to the leaders on the existing ones in order for them to modify according.
I need to find a way to somehow connect the two in order to make my final report work.
