Self Reflection:

Part 1:

• For the Technical Innovation assignment, our group was limited to resources since the Platform Screen Doors (PSD) were a very recent Installation in NYC. So we couldn’t really prove on what type of an impact the platform screen doors have made on the railroad stations. But we were able to find resources on the PSDs that have been around in Japan for a long time now. Our group also made sure to use simple, understandable writing to account for linguistic differences between our group and our audience.

• This assignment helped enchanted my strategies for reading since we had to do an abundance of research for this assignment, since it revolves around the safety and improving the train stations with advanced cutting edge technology. Also, I improved my drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment, as not only did I have to go over my work, but also the work of three other people. All of us had to work together with the editing and revising, and agree with a final draft. This helped me to see other people’s perspective and their ways of revising, which helped to find better or at least different ways to revise and edit. 

• We did a lot of negotiating between our goals and expectations and with the audience for this assignment. There were a lot of constrictions on how the Technical Innovations assignment was meant to be done. For example; our group wanted to include a good amount more information into our assignment, but due to constraints on how long the assignment could be, we weren’t able to. Along with that, all of my group members wanted to take the assignment in a certain direction, or wanted to put emphasis on a certain thing, but we all had to sacrifice certain things that we wanted. 

• We developed and engaged in the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process, by engaging in group work, and peer review. We each presented our ideas for our parts of the assignment to each other, spoke together about ideas for each other’s parts of the assignment, and helped each other to stylize the assignment similarly. 

• My group engaged in genre analysis and multimodal composition by going through several different sources that all have their own genre of writing, and by using images and diagrams along with writing in our assignment. This helped us to use effective writing as we had access to a variety of information from our different sources, and we also had images and diagrams helping our audience to understand what was in our writing.
• In our assignment, we formulated and articulated two stances, that being that the current yellow barriers in use within New York are not very useful and could be better, and that PSDs would be a better form of a barrier to be used for safety applications.
• We did practice using various sources for this assignment. We needed to collect a good amount of information to use for this assignment, and we ended up with over a page of just sources.

• We definitely strengthened our source use practices, as we had to go through various different articles and find information that would actually be of benefit to us, and find how to include that information into our assignment.   

Part 2:

When first starting to approach this assignment, I made sure to find many sources that we could use to get a good amount of information for our assignment. Once we had obtained enough sources and information. We went in head first, and just tried to get the assignment completed to the best of our ability. Once we were finished, we had started to look over and revise each other’s work, then we made sure to get our work as concise as possible, after, we tried to come up with a good design for our slides, for when our presentation. This process worked pretty well for us, as we got the work done reasonably well, and got us to finish this assignment on time. I do not believe we would need to reconsider or rework this approach. This is not a new approach to me, I have been using this approach for a good while now, for most of my assignments.