During Monday's meeting Mr Moore gave me my grades for the Preliminary and I was quite happy with them. I received an overall 18 out of 24, which I will definitely be working to improve. One fault with my project was that I did not speak about how I used my research and sources to create my final product. I remedied this today and we also spoke about cutting down the word count of my project to around 3500-3600. Mr Moore thought that I should cut words from the Goal and the Selection of Sources, so during my free period today I looked through those sections to see what I could remove. While looking through I realised that I disagreed with him because I found all of the information in those sections relevant. I then looked over the whole report and found that I was being repetitive in the Achieving the Goal section and in the Reflection on Learning.
Due to this, I decided to cut from these sections. I know that this is going against his advice, but I really think that cutting from the later sections where I found repetitions will make my report better. In any case, I have cut out a lot of words and my new word count is 3575 words, which is very close to the limit of 3500. I will see if I can cut more, but I think that there is a little bit of leeway.
Mr Moore also advised me to mention Community and Service in my Reflection on Learning, and I followed his advice. I feel that it improved my report as it meant that there was a link between the beginning and the end. He also told me that I needed to improve my bibliography format, which I spent time doing yesterday on EasyBib.
Overall, I think that this new round of editing has greatly improved my report and I am looking forward to receiving more constructive criticisms from Mr Moore after the break.
During the break I will be getting more people to read through my report and give suggestions. I will also be preparing the materials for the Final Exhibition and I will be printing out entries from this blog to represent my process journal.
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