Welcome to Week 9. This week there was a focus on progressing the remaining annotated bibliographies. I found once I become comfortable with the language used and the structure of the abstracts, writing became easier. The challenging part of this process that surprised me was the length of reading. I found that despite the requirement to review 12 articles, I was reading three times this amount. The challenge was to identify what was and was not relevant, and at times found my self distracted as I found something new and exciting to read about that may not necessarily have been within the scope of this project.

I often referred back to the feedback from the Project Plan and Proposal that suggested I narrow the scope even more than proposed. I used this as a guideline during my research and tried to move on from information outside of that narrative. My lessons learned this week is that the more precise and clear the scope is in the beginning when you have a set time frame such as this project does, it is easier to maintain focus on what you need to achieve to support your arguments for the reader.

Once I had finished my annotated bibliography, knowing I had kept this in mind, I found that the journal synopsis that I once thought difficult due to the word limitations, was not as challenging. I look forward to the feedback from the second release of feedback to confirm if this was the right approach or there were more lessons and growth opportunities.