I am
in the midst of another group report, this time focusing on the redevelopment
of Sidwell Street, Exeter. Our task is to make recommendations to the City
Council about aspects of Sidwell Street to be preserved in its regeneration. I
am, once again (since it seems few other want to take responsibility), the
group manager; designating roles, setting deadlines and organising meetings; as
well as writing my own section and editing the report. As a group, we decided
to focus on social welfare, environment and sustainability, and the economy.
This meant that each section had 200 words, giving the introduction,
methodology, literature review and conclusion 100 words each while the
executive summary has 500 words.
A
group member and I have finished writing the social welfare paragraph. At
first, our focus was wrong. Instead of recommending aspects to preserved, we
began to recommend aspects to developed, including crime rates along Sidwell
Street which we were aiming to compare to those in the High Street, but after
re-reading the question we noticed our mistake. Now, in my opinion, the section
is written to a decent standard, focusing on retaining character through
independent and multicultural shops, which add diversity to the area, and
public transport. The majority of our facts came from the city or county
council, such as the 2011 census and the city
council’s official document on Exeter’s redevelopment plan, another source came from a website and one
source came from a book. I think that there should have been more journal references and
that the paragraph should not have mainly focused on council documents but, due
to limited words and the amount of things we wanted to discuss, it would be
difficult to do so. I think it is good that we used our own data from the
questionnaire, otherwise it would only be mentioned in the methodology section.
However, I believe that there needs to be more references to our fieldwork
journal within the report because, currently, there are not enough. We also
have not used many resources outside the reference list, which is something to
consider.
There
are still two people who we have difficulty communicating with and, as a result,
I get very stressed because I don’t know whether their section is completed. However,
everyone is working which is an improvement on the last time. There is one
person, however, who needs help with writing their section, so I wrote them a
plan. I have yet to know whether they will upload it by tonight, as the
introduction and conclusion need to be written by the weekend. Sometimes, it
feels that this report is not as organised as the previous one. This could be
because we used a week to finish our essays and therefore the timeframe was
shorter. People in the group have told me that I am too proactive and that they
do not work at my speed. Where I begin to work on something within a week of
receiving the task, the majority of the group leave things until the last week.
I can’t do this, I get far too stressed if something is approaching the
deadline. In my opinion, being proactive is a good thing because I am not
stressed when it comes to the last week but when people work slower than me I
am not very good at keeping calm. I think this is something I need to work on,
perhaps addressing my impatience.
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