Draft Before Peer Review:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mSPnnEjSkR5yU27U0bIz7eoDmI40Eo3y_iokhiOjxvA/edit?usp=sharing
What we changed: After hearing what the class had to say about our news release, we had a couple of things to change. First, I changed the formatting of the testimonials, because there was feedback that they were distracting. Mostly distracting because there was a different font and formatted differently. So I brought them into a paragraph format and made it all the same font. This allowed it to flow a lot better, and wasn’t super distracting. We did recognize what and why people brought up the points that they did, and we did agree with them and that is why we changed everything that was brought up.
Final Draft:
My role: I feel that the role that I had was at the same level of my group members. We kept good communication and recognition for who is doing what. For the news release, we kept who was doing what very similar to what we did for the brochure. For me, that meant I did the testimonials and formatting because I had previous knowledge of how to do so. And them from there I sent in the final drafts, and so on. There was a few other minor edits that I made to the entirety of the paper as well. I do think I was the one that encouraged and finalized some things regarding the news release, along with initiating some of the communication between us in the group.
Reflection: (Journal 26) I think as my group continues to work together we are communicating well, along with understanding how each other works. Our news release process was very easy, and we were able to get it done very fast. We went back and forth on some things at the beginning, and then we were able to go our separate ways and do our own work. As I already had an understanding of this document from a previous class, I think it made my process a bit easier, along with helping my group through the process. Although, as I worked with my group and did the peer review day, I realized I had learned a little differently in my previous class. Because the class was a public relations class, everything was sophisticated, and very strict. We were taught that the news release would be nothing different than that. But the class had some really creative, and not as sophisticated versions of their news releases. They were all very good, and with edits we made in the class they will be even better. It was just a good reminder that everyone teaches, and learns differently. At the end of the process, we did start to lose some connection with each other. There was no communication on who was sending in the draft, who was done with their work, who still had things to work on, so that became difficult. But we did work through it and get through it. The in-class time does help with the communication piece, as emailing and texting back and forth can get confusing and information can get lost easily. Revisions were very easy to make, and once people started pointing out the imperfections of our document, it was easy to see what they meant. And this happens no matter what document you are working on, no matter how many times you look it over it, and how many times you edit it, someone else will always read it differently and have different things to say about it.
