English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

For the final week of the class, I mainly focused on finishing up the final draft for my part of the white paper, which mostly involved adding in a few places with real life examples to show how a certain feature or part of my device may be used. So instead of just listing things like my router has a SPI firewall, I worked on explaining how having an SPI firewall will allow a user to be more secure.

Its a day late, but this is my individual activity report from last week. During week fourteen, I along with the rest of my group mainly focused on completing the rough draft of our white paper. Because there was no reading response or comments to make about the reading responses, I had the entire week to just focus on this. I had a meeting with my group the week before were we had briefly discussed how we wanted to do the rough draft, and during the week we continued to refine it as new issues came up.

This week was a productive week for me and everyone else in the group. Although there wasn't much group work to do this week, there was plenty of individual work to be done. On Monday I continued with my research for our white paper. I also did the white paper thumbnail assignment on Wednesday then had a group meeting, after we had all turned in our thumbnails and commented on each members in our group, to decide how we wanted the final design of our white paper to look. We ended up deciding to incorporate what we thought of as the best parts of each design for our white paper.

For my final research blog I was able to find another technical review of the Netgear WGR614 wireless router. I found it at devhardware.com. This review was able to confirm many of the pros and cons that were listed in the first review that I read. It talked about the ease of setup as well as the high average speed and long range of the router.

For my second research blog I started looking up the technical reviews for my Netgear router. One of the better ones that I found was at New York Times tech review. The editor reviewing this router did a very thorough test in my opinion as was able to point out many pros and cons of this router that may be important to a person looking to purchase this for a company's wireless solution.

For my first research blog I decided to start by looking at the manufacturers website for the Netgear WGR 614 wireless router. The address of the manufacturers website is netgear WGR 614. To me this seemed like the logical place to start doing my research for the router.

This weeks reading assignment in TCT was all about ethics which they defined as "doing what is right." However after finishing the reading, it becomes clear that while defining ethics is very straight forward, solving some ethical dilemmas are anything but. For some ethical dilemmas just knowing what the right thing to do can be hard enough, and for many other ones, actually doing the right thing is usually very hard to do.

This week I had a group meeting on Sunday with Kristin and Joe. We worked on the Gantt chart, and decided how to divide up the white paper into the parts that we are each going to do. The initial way we were going to divide up research and work for the white paper had to be redone after receiving our instructor feedback though.

For week 2 my group started the week off with a group chat on aim on Sunday. During this meeting we discussed how we wanted to divide up the work for the rest of this project. We decided on how we wanted to divide up the different parts of the white paper as well as who would be responsible for posting any of group documents for the remainder of the project. We decided on what solutions for wireless networking we wanted to include in the white paper, and which group member would be doing the research on each solution.