English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

Group Activity Report
Group 3
For: Professor Rivers

During our final week of our white paper project our team decided to give it our all to finish out the semester with a bang. The first thing we did was review the comments Nathaniel suggested to make our white paper shine.

During this week starting from Monday (April 27th) to today, Friday (May 1st), our group has primarily worked on editing the rough draft and making a final version of the White Paper.
This week moved very quickly, leaving no time to wait around. At the beginning of the week the group agreed to read through the comment on our rough draft. We were encouraged to look at our paper and see what we could individually improve on. Most of the problems were within the grammar and in text citing resources. In addition there were a few more additional problems that our group addressed.

Date: May 1, 2009
To: Professor Rivers
From: Group 2
Subject: Group 2 Activity Report – Week 16

This week was obviously spent on making the final corrections to our white paper. We spent a lot of time revising, formatting, and restructuring our paper to make it just right. We implemented a lot of the corrections that were given in our rough draft feedback and we feel that they helped to improve the overall flow of the document.

This week we edited our rough draft from last week in order to put together a final draft to hand in for our project. There were a number of minor details that needed to be adjusted. Some of the points brought to our attention by our instructor were to change our spacing so it was not double and consistency in the use of spaces and serial commas. We also had some errors with heading titles and other quick-fixes that needed to be taken care of.

This week our group worked to perfect our rough draft. Although the rough draft did an effective job portraying the research done on our three renewable energy resources, it needed editing and citations. In addition to making the corrections suggested by Professor Tirrell in his rough draft comments, the paper needed polishing.

The group was very productive this week. Everyone conducted much needed research which was very beneficial in making this project a success. Early this week there were emails passed among the group and we discussed the plan of action that we were going to take in order to get the rough draft completed. What we decided on was that everyone in the group was going to type up about a four-hundred word document and submit it to Zephyrus so he could put it into a template that would make up our rough draft.

This week was crunch time. Everyone did their best to meet tonight’s deadline so we could have a good base for the final draft. Group communication continued to be strong throughout the week, with everyone having a say in the direction of the project. After a lot of writing, revising, and formatting a solid rough draft has been produced.

This week was spent researching and compiling the rough draft for the white paper. We started off the week with a meeting on AIM to discuss how we wanted to proceed for writing. The group decided to have a brief introduction, explanation, costs and benefits, drawbacks, and environmental consequences for each type of energy.

Adam decided that smart grid technology didn’t really fit with the concept of nuclear, hydro, and solar energy and would probably make us go over our limit for the paper.