A small statement in the lack of ten blog posts.

This is why there is only 6.



Within the frontier project, we set out to write a small number of blog posts to go alongside all of the development work that was done for the specialist in Port. At this point, we were not told how many blog posts are needed. I have already completed my specialism report and there is no more development work that has been done. It would have been lovely to be able to split the work that I have done into 10 blog posts and be able to fulfil all of the requirements set but as I had no information on a task that was set I had decided to instead put them into better categories within my blog post the settle to complete 6 evenly structured and well-written blog post rather than 10 blog posts noticeably split from 6 different sections. He has always been my understanding that the teacher or an academic group prefers to see quality over quantity. If I were to add any more blog post, they will be fraudulent and would not have contributed in the slightest to the specialism report. 

This project has deeply saddened me as I was under the impression that I was doing very well but this assumption has now changed with new stipulations added to the product elements that I was unaware of. I hope in the future to have a better structure understanding at the beginning of a project full stop this will entail me asking a lot more questions and a lot more specifics about the cause rather than assuming that the structure given to us in the brief was all of the information that we needed. Nevertheless, I am still proud of my work as, although it might not fit this brief, when compared to academic publishings on similar subjects, the work I have done holds up as fairly professional. 

I will not fraudulently add bad work onto the end of this project and, while following the brief, I have done all that was originally set to complete. I am deeply sorry there can be nothing more than that. 

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