English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

This week was a tough one because we did not have much time to complete the proposal. I believe having a little more time would have been nice, but we are cutting it close here at the end of the semester. This week my group decided to split the project up into the four major documents due. Lindsay Petrovi did the bulk of the proposal. She did a well thought out rough draft. She posted it on Google Docs and then I gave feedback to what questions she still had about the proposal. Overall she did the bulk and my answers were small.

Date: April 5, 2009
To: J. Tirrell
From: Scott Stella, Group 7
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

The blog post will summarize what has been done this week for the white paper project.

Date: April 5, 2009
To: Professor Rivers
From: Brian O’Leary, Group 2
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

This activity report accounts for the progress I have made from March 30th to April 5th.

This week I played part in communicating our contact information with each other this week. Jack contacted everyone and we all replied with our email/phone/aim contact information. We all first agreed that we would rotate the job of our group activity report each week. Following this we started to formulate our topic. Once again all of this communication was through email.

Date: April 5, 2009
To: Professor Rivers
From: Isaac Townsend, Group 1
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

This activity report accounts for the work and progress I have made from March 30th to April 5th.

I have not accomplished much of anything in regards to this group project. I sent an email out to the group on Tuesday to try and get some ideas going about a topic. Since I tend to be quite busy it is very helpful for me to get things organized as soon as possible so that I can plan around an conflicts.

Individual Work Blog
Date: April 5, 2009
To: Professor Tirrell
From: Zebulon Rouse, Group 7
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

This report is the summary of the progress toward the White Paper project, starting from the initial date (March 30) to today (April 5).
Throughout this week, I have sent out an email initiating the communication process among the group. From that point we had submitted topics which we were interested in.

Date: 4/5/2009
To: Professor Rivers
From: Chris Kirkwood, Group 3
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

Date: April 5, 2009
To: Jeremy Tirrell, Instructor
From: Joe Davies, Group 5
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1

This week I did my best to help the group get started on our project. During the first few days we wanted to brainstorm a few ideas for a topic, so I took a look at http://www.bitpipe.com/ and other resources to see what might be feasible. The main page gives several popular topics, and I suggested about four of them that were of interest to me.

The first week of the group white paper project focused mainly on getting acquainted with the assignment and the group. We decided rather early on that we would split the major deliverables up, with each one of us being primarily responsible for one aspect of the project. A Google Docs account was created for our group to use, and we have already begun to utilize it by adding to, editing, and commenting on our initial proposal. We are also looking into ways to send messages through Google Docs so out inboxes will not become overly cluttered with emails back and forth.