English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

Date: April 7, 2009
To: Professor Rivers
From: Jason Flittner, Group 1
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

This activity report summarizes the steps taken to complete the proposal for the white paper my group has decided to create.

From my reading I have gathered that white papers in general are extensive documents that detail some type of solution regarding a particular problem. Marketing white papers have recently become more popular because they can provide highly technical information and provide more information than a common pamphlet or brochure might provide. A government whitepaper is focused on a particular policy or position that a government might be taking, where a marketing whitepaper is more focused toward an audience that needs educated about a certain topic or product.

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Thx

JFlitt

*** Please note I realize that it says Novice instructions and Expert instructions at the bottom of each instruction set, this is for identification purposes and will be removed on the final draft.***

These instruction sets describe how to format a Flash or Hard Disk Drive within Windows Vista and/or Windows Server 2008.
The expert instructions include the same beginning steps as the novice, but they also have more detailed information regarding some of the middle steps that allow for further customization of the format process.

“The revising and editing phase is where your documents will go from ‘adequate’ to ‘excellent’”

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For some reason my pdf printer decided to make the backgrouns look all textured on my numbers in my graphics, please disregard this as it does not look like that in word and doesn't look like that when actually printed, it is actually a solid color!

Thanks

JFlitt

Designing my instructions is going to be a real task. I wouldn’t consider myself at all creatively inclined and I am a bit worried about my overall design skills. I have certainly learned some useful things from these chapters and from the instructor’s blog.

The process I will be describing is the installation of an invisible shield on any type of electronic device. The invisible shield is a protective coating that will protect most any small electronic device from scratches or damage. These instructions are legitimate because I don’t feel that they instructions they came with suffice in the full detail of the installation process. I have prior experience with installing invisible shields and have made installation videos in the past (link to youtube at the bottom).

Hello All!