English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

This week was spent on the final draft of our white paper on renewable energy options. I met with the group Monday and made sure everyone was aware of the schedule for the rest of the week. I thought it was important that after the rough final draft was done, we should all have a look and give our approval or change it to what we thought would be better. My personal opinion of the final paper that we turned in is that it looked really professional and thorough and our group put a lot of work into it to make it look so.

Emails were being shot back and forth all week to get everyone’s opinion and thoughts. I made sure that everyone took a look at the grading criteria that is posted on the course website and our feedback from Professor Tirrell on our rough draft to make sure that we corrected anything he saw that was in error.

Throughout the week I was reading and proofreading my section of the paper to decide if it sounded professional enough and fit with the rest of the paper. I was also making sure that the sources I used were cited properly.

I met with Dean later in the week to get his thoughts on the paper (we have several classes together). We agreed it was done well.

Overall I really enjoyed the topic that we chose for our paper. Specifically nuclear energy has always interested me and I was excited to get to write about it.