Purpose Statement: This post explains why our group went with the all-in-parallel method for writing our white paper, giving an idea of what that means incase other students are curious.
Our group chose to use the "All-In-Parallel" method to draft our white paper. Because of the number of people in our group and how we have already been working on the project, it seemed natural to choose a method like this one, where we are all working on equal parts at the same time. As part of our class time, we tried it out. We each wrote on the topic we chose, and afterward copy and pasted it into the same document. We have also chosen specific jobs for different people in our group for later on after most of it is written. For example, I will be the chief editor, someone else is in charge of making and using all the infographics and charts, and someone else is going to find the important quotes to pull.
But for now, as we are drafting and writing, we will use the all-in-parallel method. This way everyone does the work, and everyone gets a say. Hopefully, after editing everything, we will be able to make everyone's unique voice and perspective flow together and make it sound as if only one person had written it. The other methods seemed to be either less efficient, keep everyone from having equal say in the project, or else make it harder for the workload to be spread evenly. As Hannah, one of our group members, worded it, “We decided to use all in parallel because our group works best by splitting up work and then collaborating together to make the work unified.”
