English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

This week I looked at how we could narrow down our broad audience. I realized that the scope of my group’s white paper was too broad. It would be impractical for us to cover the whole range of schools in our paper on open source instead of Microsoft products. I helped in deciding that we would focus on a smaller audience to help make our white paper more effective. This much necessary narrowing of our white paper will allow us to create a much more effective paper. I was in charge of writing this week’s group activity report. I also began researching for our white paper. I am trying to find information about schools that have either switched or decided to use open source products instead of Microsoft products. I have been looking to find the amount of savings that they have had from switching and what types of new complications arise from switching. I have been documenting my findings using some note cards, a notebook and by summarizing. Summarizing my findings will make it much easier to know what information I have when our group starts to get our findings together. I have also started to create my research blog.