English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

The last of week of working on the white paper project was little stressful. I was in charge of all the graphical formatting and structure for the white paper. After gathering all the final revised sections I place them into Adobe Illustrator accordingly. I had a hard time formatting the information at times to make sure everything would fit, in addition to making it appealing and effective. The biggest problem I encountered was the size of each .pdf file. Since our white paper was more emphasis on graphics it made the file larger which caused minor problems.

Crunch time was the underline theme for our white paper project this week. I had finish doing most of the research for my topic with Firefox and started grouping my research information together. I then created an outline of Firefox features that would be consider important/useful for our targeted audience to present to my group.

This individual report consists of information that accrued during week 14 of our white paper project. At the start of the week I developed ideas to use for the creation of our white paper design. After designing a few ideas I implemented them in Adobe Illustrator to present my design. I began to review/critiqued my other group member’s concept designs to collect information to start putting together a final white paper layout design.

This document highlights the information I found most useful from the website
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#password-manage
for my white paper project. This website features the advantages of Mozilla Firefox a web browser that provides a number of superior advantages in use.

In my second research blog I will be summarizing the information that I have found from http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/tested-google-chrome-vs-ie8-v... for my white paper project. The information from this website has information from Tech Radar, which is a news source website that discusses emerging technology in all different categories.

In my first research blog I will be summarizing the information that I have found from http://learningremix.emich.edu/Winter08/learning_remix/2008/01/advantage... for my white paper project. The information from this website has information from a Learning Community at Eastern Michigan University from 2008.

After reading the Thompson handbook about ethics, it defiantly makes you think about everything from a different perspective. One of the topics addressed in the reading talks about a subject that gives me chills every time I think about it. Copyrights. What can be copyrighted? What are the limits of copyright laws? It’s a very grey complex area in some aspects of its application. How far can you walk on the edge of the cliff before falling off? As a computer graphics artist I have to constantly think about trademarks/copyrights laws and what is exactly being protected.

The second week of working on the white paper project was an awakening for our group. The first thing we had to decide was what to do about the direction of our project. The first proposal didn’t meet the requirements and we would have to make a large overhaul to have it work. The group all came to the conclusion to pick a totally different topic. We decided to pick comparing/contrasting different web browsers (Opera, Firefox, IE) in an small IT company/department setting. After picking the new topic, research was divided among group members.