Our graduate school group had another busy weekend. On Saturday, we met from 8:30 a.m. to midnight working on the the second draft of our final capstone project paper. We've tried to cut the number pages down by focusing the writing so that it reads better but, its been slow going.
If you ever have the opportunity to write a substantive report, with a group of diverse people, run away as fast as you can. I have yet to see, and I've been doing this for almost 20 years, a well-written report done by a committee. The only way it works is if one person takes on the responsibility and does it alone. Yes, you take the input of everyone on the committee, but it has to be one voice. Otherwise, things get very confusing, very quickly.
When I began this process I noted we would have problems because of this committee form of writing and, indeed, that is what has happened. But, as with everything else during the last three years, it has been a learning experience.
We have until next week Monday to get the paper in a form that is acceptable to our professor.
Aloha!
