During the past week our team, Group 2 communicated via google drive to plan and create our group proposal. All members submitted a brief summary of their research and from this our proposal was formed. All communication and group work worked very well, and we are ready to move to the next stage of our project. Our proposal consist of the objective, solution and team member duties.

This far our group work has been going well. Before we left for the break, specific sections of research was assigned to each member. Today, the group will discuss the proposal and how we are going to complete it over the next week.

Some articles I researched for our group project (Group 2)
History of pollution,

Hudson River PCBs

https://www3.epa.gov/hudson/cleanup.html

The progress of my instruction manual is going well so far. I have already listed all of the ingredients, steps and equipment needed to make my own coral / exotic fish food. Next I need to expand of the instructions and measurements of the ingredients. If the measurements are not correct per ratio, it can have a negative affect once it is added to the saltwater system by causing a rise in phosphates and excessive nutrients. As a result, this will cause hair algae and other problems to grow. I am also working on the images for my manual, which will all be from my own systems.

For the instruction manual I have decided to write direction on how to create fish food for saltwater corals and fish. As a hobby I collect exotic fish and corals, and have always planned on manufacturing my own food. This is a very precise product because any incorrect mixtures can cause a crash within the saltwater system killing all fish and corals.

At first I thought this assignment was going to be easy for me to complete. However, it became difficult because the term I selected was Network which is a combination of two words, net and work.  I decided to state the origin of both words and then spoke of the term itself on a whole. I am not confident that my writing was technical enough for this paper. I am looking forward for the Professors feedback, and hopefully revise whatever mistakes he points out. As for MLA and citing I am good with those instructions.

In the Spring 17 semester I have already taken midterms exams for Database Systems, and Java programming. My midterm exam for Operating system is in the following week of 3/20. I am expecting the operating System midterm to be somewhat difficult because several different types of operating systems that are discussed in the courses such as Windows, Linux, and IOS.

After reviewing the feedback from Assignment One, I agreed with the criticism and the information provided to become a better writer. The main feedback was my assignment had a lot of information which read as a list of information. While writing this assignment, I also felt as if I was providing a lot of information because I wanted to review all of the main points from the article itself. When I was finished with the first draft, I was over by almost 150 words. Therefore I began to cut out sentences and other point to meet the 500 word requirement. This is a problem I have always had as a student writer. Whenever professors assigned papers with requirements I have always gone over the required amount. This is something I plan to work on and correct in this class. Another, point that was brought to my attention was to use better transition words.  This is something I am not worried about because I am normally good at this. For future assignments, I will surly work to improve this as well.

I mainly agreed with the reading from “That’s What You Think” by Elizabeth  Kolbert about perception and how we can sometimes assume that we know all of a particular topic. It is human nature that we tend to believe we have a full understanding without properly investigating all details and facts . Humans tend to speak from their emotions rather than full details.