English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

This week was a very busy one for me and my group because the final draft was due and there was a lot of things that I wanted to change around before we posted it. I put a lot of time trying to get our white paper rough draft into top condition.

This was a busy week for me again with school and work, but I found time to get it all done. Really the only thing that we had to do this week was to prepare our rough draft of our white paper. I had previously done my research blogs so I pretty much knew what I wanted to put into the paper, but I had to put in the right format. Basically what I did was take all of the information from my research and put it into the same category for each phone. For example I put the size and weight together, colors together, and all of the different hardware and specification information together.

My third and final research blog is going to be over the G1’s hardware and specifications. I got all of my research and information from the company who actually makes the phone, HTC, itself at their website http://www.htc.com/www/product/g1/specification.html.

My second research blog is going to be over the Blackberry Storm’s hardware and specifications. I got all of my information for this part of my research from the Blackberry website itself at http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrystorm/specifications.shtml. This website was a lot like the website in my previous blog, but I will go through the details anyways.

For this assignment my research is going to be over the hardware and specifications of the iPhone, Blackberry Storm, and the G1. In my first research blog I am going to be going over the specs for the iPhone by Apple. I got all of my information from Apple themselves at the website http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html.

This week in general has been a very busy one for me, both for this class and in work. Besides the normal workload of reading the assigned readings and writing our responses, there was also a lot that my group had to do for this week.

Ethics is a big part of life, not only in the workplace and in school, but it is somewhat of a factor in almost every single situation that a person deals with. Ethics, or as the book put it, “doing the right thing,” is something that is engrained in a person when they are a child by their parents and their surroundings. Long story short, a person’s ethics is basically what they think is right or wrong. For example, is it right to cheat off of another person’s test paper or is it right to look away and not cheat?

Once again this week my group discussed how we were going to divide up the work for this week through emails and through Microsoft Office Live. We briefly discussed what we wanted for the Gantt chart and divided up who was going to do what. I decided that my main role in the Gantt chart would be to revise and edit it. Once it was posted on the office live website, I took a look at it and after a few minutes I came up with several different ideas about changing it.

I think that the Thomson Handbook has a great definition of research in saying that, “research projects typically involve posing problems and answering questions about a subject that you want to learn about or that you think others should understand better.” In my eyes, that is probably the best definition of research that I have ever heard. I know that I personally hate to do research for schoolwork and assignments, but if it is something that I am genuinely interested in than I thoroughly enjoy learning more about a subject that I like.