Essay On Group Work

When I heard the idea of writing a proposal, in order to get money to improve some part of campus, I was fairly excited and eager to start the assignment. But I soon realized that this assignment would be harder than I had expected. The hardest part for me was trying to figure out something to fix on campus with the allotted $10,000. It became very apparent that this was not a lot of money, and most things would go way over budget in order to be practical and to make a difference. The other hard part of this assignment, was the group work aspect. I don’t mind group work, but with something like this, everyone has different ideas of what to do, and how to do them. It took more time than I expected in order to straighten everything out. But I …show more content…
It seemed like our topics of “hunger” and “food wastage” were very extensive and had a lot of great information, but almost too much. We spent a lot of time narrowing down this research in order to find the numbers that we needed and a way to localize the data in order to make it work for UNM campus. The composing of all the data, was fairly easy, as the information seemed to just flow. The only issue was trying to condense all the research, in order to compose a good paper, with good information. It was harder than I expected to merge everyone’s own writing style and to make the document sound decent. It became very apparent that we were all at different writing levels and would have to work everything out. The last part that was hard in the writing process was the collaboration of our group. My group tended to have a hard time being in class on time, or being able to meet outside of class in order to work together. We all had different work schedules and this made things very difficult. We were able to use google docs for most of it, but I found myself trying to push progress in the document fairly