My Lincoln Douglas reflection

This Project, I would have to say was not my best project; I felt that me and my group members could have done a better job had we not waited to the last minute. We did not communicate very well because most of the time there were arguments about how the paper should be. Some group members did not agree with how the paper turned out, I think that if we had more time on the project we would have had better communication but since we didn’t one person worked on the layout and design while other group members just sat around looking for stuff to do. The reason for that could be for that reason of trying to make the due date we all were worried about turning it in on time we missed simple mistakes that could have been fixed if only we had multiple drafts and had people revise them and critique or errors. The first day we assigned the project it seemed like we were all prepared we gave ourselves things to do for homework like bringing in articles about the Lincoln- Douglas debate.

On October 8th 2008 I read the debate I found on a website that had the 7th debate with Lincoln and Douglas. I had found the article the night before for homework, so the next day when I skimed through it, I could write a rough draft when I got home of how my article would look. Then the next day I wrote some notes that Randy put on the board of how the newspaper should look. I should have a Lede, a quote and a transition sentence. When I looked at my notes and looked at my paper I knew I had some more to add. As we got all of our articles together our next step was to add pictures and captions to our newspaper. We looked up pictures of the Lincoln and Douglas debate and for once we all agreed on something. We had enough room to add another element to our newspaper.

I decided to write a funny short advice column that I thought would make a good addition to our newspaper to make it sound more interesting. I was sad that we did not go with that although I thought we should, we ended up going with an advertisement that went well with the flow of the newspaper so all’s well that ends well. Overall something I could improve on would have to be my article about the Dred Scott case.

If I reviewed my work and had others read over it I think it would have been a whole lot better entry. It would have had less errors and I could have gotten feedback on more things like, stuff that I needed to add to make my essay flow better. If I could change something about this project I would change me being assertive in putting my ideas out there I had a lot of good ideas but since I was not aggressive enough none of them were heard.