Jada Parker
Sun Feb 1
CODES
Reflection 1
My project is centered around a website that will provide resources to the residents of Cahokia heights. My part specifically is to generate a list of government funded agencies that I feel will be most useful to the residents. To ensure that I am providing useful resources or if I feel a revision may be needed due to the ones that I have not meeting certain requirements or have what I think the residents of Cahokia heights may be looking for, I must ask myself a serious of questions such as: how is this agency different from the rest? What makes it stand out? How quick will I receive a response back? Will I even hear back from them? What steps must I take to get what I’m looking for? In order for me to answer these types of questions I must put myself in the shoes of a person that’s from Cahokia heights. Some secondary sources that I need to explore to help bolster my previous research is government documentation, this could be the EPA inspection or the City of Cahokia heights planning records, I can look into news coverage or community responses to look at quotes from residents or officials. As I said before my targeted audience is the people of Cahokia heights and while doing this research I find it very important to put myself in their shoes. If I go in as myself, my research won’t feel as raw and authentic and I won’t feel like I’m reaching and impacting the people of Cahokia heights the way I should be. So when I do my revisions I want to make sure that everything that I’m including is useful to them in some way. I say this because I know that they have done a ton of interviews and surveys before mine and I’m pretty sure I won’t be the last person, but I want my audience to be fulfilled. That’s why I need to be strict on the type of research that I do, the things that I input into this project must matter not only to me but to them as well because the whole point of this is for them.