Project 2 Reflection: Clarity

In this project I thought I did the online/design part of it well, I know it wasn't the most important part of the project but I guess it got me motivated to complete the rest of it. I enjoyed finding all the locations I used on the map and writing little descriptions with them and linking them back to the annotation. Since I liked doing that part, I feel like I did it well. I also thought after seriously looking for resources, that I used them well in my project and I correctly cited them with MLA style. I struggled with finding a distinct criteria that applied to every location I picked. Instead of picking places that involved every aspect of my criteria, my criteria was made based on the different places I chose. So each place represented a part of the criteria, instead of judging the group of people I was doing I was judging the places more. My criteria wasn't the easiest criteria to judge a student-athlete on and to kind of rate them in a way. Which made it difficult for me to make an evaluation, which was the point of the project. I tend to make things harder for myself for some reason and so I keep learning through these projects to spend a lot of time on them to make it easier on myself. I think I will go back to how I completed my first project and spend more time editing it with what Prof. L and my other classmates suggest I do. I need to create a thesis first thing so that I can base the rest of my annotations and paper on it and to prove it with evidence. I think my evaluation was fairly strong, because (as previously mentioned) my criteria wasn't the best I found it hard to make a clear evaluation on each place, but I thought I did well for not changing my criteria. In the future, I will make sure I can clarify a thesis and criteria so that the rest of the evaluation and proving it will be distinguishable. I will apply this process of evaluation to the rest of my life by not just judging things or people on the surface or what it seems but by actually having evidence of my thoughts and being able to back myself up. I think it is important to have your own sort of "criterion" that is not written but mental, and that way you don't have to go through this process to determine if something is good or bad, but by quickly going over your criteria in your head and making judgements quickly but based on something rather than just feelings.