Technical Description Reflection

     Looking back on my decision to choose a stereo cassette player for the item I would be describing, I can’t help but feel conflicted. Choosing a technical device between the difficulty of a spoon and a car engine I chose to write about one of my hobbies. Although I knew a lot about the item I was describing, the cassette player was still a complex item with intricately connecting pieces. Taking the Walkman apart and describing what each button did and how it did it, was tedious but tedious and I are very well intertwined. The technical description, however, I found myself making some poor choices. In terms of the table of contents, I chose to organize it by image or section rather than by page number. This was because the pictures would go in a specific sequence and their individual descriptions would run more than a page or share space with another. Believing I could write a technical description using most of my first-hand experience would prove to be a hindrance when finding and identifying sources. Most of the information I had on cassette players came from video tutorials and certain forums and websites. The core information of how the item was first thought of was the only text citation I could make. In the end, this was what lowered my grade the most, a lack of proper in-text citations. Although had I used the references I did have more appropriately such as when I was describing certain things such as the oscillator or the tape head I would have had a more credible piece. Rather than just placing my references in the back without any direct noticeable involvement. I am satisfied with my decision and content with the grade I received. The next time something such as this comes across, I may have to rethink the complexity of what I am about to disassemble.