English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

I spent most of this week working on inserting revisions and suggestions from the instructors and the rest of the group into our rough draft of the white paper.

Once we received our feedback from the instructor last Sunday, we had a group meeting, which I participated in. I spent a lot of time working on formatting our sources and the footnotes. Because of the way we chose to lay our paper out, we couldn't let InDesign automatically number the footnotes, which meant that every time something changed, or we added a source, the footnotes had to be renumbered and adjusted individually. Needless to say, this took quite a lot of time.

In addition, I added some real-world context to the introduction, as well as adding as section on the draft-N speed standard. I hadn't realized that any of the routers we were dealing with had draft-N until Shane revised his portion and updated the standards there. I also realized that we needed an executive summary, but since I was busy working on the footnotes, Joe offered to handle writing that.

I also came up with the idea to add the overview boxes to each section. I thought our paper could use more ways for readers to access some of the information from the writing than just the specs tables.

After receiving feedback on our final draft from every group member, I posted the final draft to the course web site. I then completed my collaborative project evaluation form and e-mailed this form to my instructor.