Self Assessment II

The first and most obvious thing I need to do to succeed this semester is finish my P.R. story. As things work out, the best time for me and my client to work together is on Friday, and I have lost the past two Friday’s as work days, and am very far behind on this assignment. The most important thing for me to do is get information from my client, and work with them to develop a useful positioning statement and target audience. I think that if I can make quick, strong developments in these areas, I feel that completing the assignment on time and in a somewhat effective manner will be only a matter of finding time to work on it before Monday night.

In a broader sense, I am not sure I have improved as a writer this semester. It is possible that I have, and simply cannot see it because of the nature of the improvement, but it seems to me that my writing is at more-or-less the same place it started. The drop in grade from my first to second assignment, I believe, can be attributed to a change from print to broadcast style (with which I am very uncomfortable) and my finishing the assignment at three o’clock the night before the assignment was due.

As before, it seems like I need to continue to work on AP style, but I also understand that I will always need to work on AP style, and expecting to complete my understanding in one semester is too great of an expectation. During the final weeks of the semester, I would like to continue to improve my grasp of AP style, as well as improve my writing. In ways that I am not sure I understand, my writing is simply not as good as writing I have seen in news publications, and would like to put my finger on that difference, at the very least.