Slow & Steady Progress

As the above title suggest, my work yesterday on my SCORE final draft progressed at a slow but steady rate. I started yesterday on my revisions of the text of my rough draft. I cut out sections I thought were unnecessary or were not allowed by the SCORE rubric (In this case, the use of the first-person). In particular, I looked for phrases that I had used more than once, circling them so that I could change them later. For example, I tend to over rely on usage of the words "This" and "These". Both these words were hunted down and ruthlessly circled by the iron point of my #2 pencil.

I also took the opportunity to visit the library again to look for my third book source. Though I only used four sources in my rough draft, I actually have seven sources: my SCORE project, two books, three periodicals, and a website. Due to time difficulties, I couldn't fit all of the soures into my rough draft. My visit to the library was therefore necessary to find one more book source. Fortunately, in this aspect, I was successful, as I managed to find several quotes from a book.

This left me with my interviews. I asked my dad if he would like to be interviewed, to which he agreed. Now I just needed to my second source. In my last post, I discussed the possibilty of interviewing Bob Hastings, the executive director of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, as my second interview source. However, yesterday, I thought that I may try to interview Deborah Eliason, the member of the SeARTS board of directors who I had worked with on the surveys. Yesteday morning I sent her an email asking her if she would have time this to sit down for an interview. Unfortunately, as of this morning, at 7:48 AM, I have yet to hear back from her. She is undoubtfully very busy this week, but I hope that I will receive an email from her soon.