I know i'm starting this project late but only now are the materials becoming fully available that i need from everyone else within the department.
I'm still waiting on a few documents, but other then that i should have a fairly decent product by the time i am done with this. Unfortunately i feel that i may not have it totally complete by the time our posters are due for presentation which worries me. Furthermore, I feel like it will not show my ability as at best i will be compeleting a rought draft for the department to further work with and improve on as both the introductory course for future Soca, and CI students evolves.
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It's not always about the finished product, it's about what you learn along the way. I wouldn't worry about what everyone else will have finished just because we are all in different areas of writing with different projects and some of them take longer than others. The important thing to learn is how to effectively complete a rough draft with very few major changes.
Do you have to design a cover for the handbook or just gather the materials and format them to a uniform look?
I suggest working on what you have now and as the rest of it comes in, just plug away at it. That seemed to be the most effective way for me to get my booklet done. However, I knew going into this that it would be too big of a project with the little time I had and the lack of communication with the international collaborators, for me to uniformly present the booklet. I also reasoned it with each person shows a bit of their personality with the layouts of their CVs, so to keep it the way it was worked fine.
It might seem far-fetched, but you have an interesting angle here that you could explore for your poster presentation -- how can a professional writer work effectively in the type of situation that you're describing, where different types of material become available at different times -- in effect, you could discuss how a professional writer can work most effectively in such a situation, and/or highlight the problems in working in such a situation.
Or, another interesting approach might be to describe/analyze how to write in a situation where you're writing a document that needs to be open and revisable for future changes in the department. What are special considerations you need to keep in mind when creating such a document?
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