English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

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.

For my second research blog, I decided to cover the information that was contained in an article titled New York Needs Renewable Wind Power, which is available online here. This article was published by Citizens Campaign for the Environment, an 80,000 member not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing strong environmental policies. This article discusses reasons of support for renewable energy and wind power in New York.

My main focus for our white paper project will be focusing on the needs of our audiences. I will be looking for any and all information that each audience needs to know. I will be researching what all the audience will be using in the platform/software and present the relevant data in the document. But before I begin researching for our audiences, I must research SharePoint and the other platforms for myself first.

For my second research blog, I decided to cover the information that was contained in a May 2008 Popular Mechanics article titled Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure. This article is also available online here . Popular Mechanics is a monthly circulating magazine that focuses on current topics in technology and science.

This week was extremely productive for our group. We continued to research our individual pieces of the white paper draft, and worked on completing our research blogs. We shared some useful sources via e-mail while we worked.

In addition, we each created our own thumbnail for the design of the white paper. Interestingly, three out of the four of us chose some shade of blue to use as the main color in our thumbnail.

After having finally nailed down a good solid project proposal, we decided to divide up the research by topics early in the week. We were already a little behind due the proposal changing, and wanted to have as much time as possible to get our research done. The topics consisted of horizontal vs. standing column, closed and open loop designs, and a single loop direct exchange system. Doing this allowed us to be sure we cover all our bases when it comes to different information, along with helping to avoid everyone bringing the same information to the table.

This research blog will summarize the information that is contained in the website http://www.ec.gc.ca/
cleanair-airpur/Pollution_Sources/Electricity_Generation/Coal_and_Oil_Fired_Power-WS36F53482-1_En.htm. This website consists of environmental information related to coal- and oil-fired power. This information was provided by Environment Canada, which is legally incorporated as Canada’s Department of the Environment.

This activity report summarizes the progress that I have made this week in regard to the white paper project.