English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

2nd Individual Activity Report
For: Professor Rivers
From: Chris Kirkwood

This document is a report of the individual progress that I have made toward the team project this week. At the beginning of the week we all met for a face to face group meeting in order to come up with a specific plan for the week. I participated in a long group discussion where we decided to change our original proposal in order to make it more focused on a smaller audience. After we divided up the different sections of the white paper, I began my research on the internet. I have been researching online sources and documenting the address as well as making notes on note cards of the information I find from each site. Also earlier this past week I was very consumed with reading the assigned readings which gave me a much better understanding of exactly how a white paper should be written, and who it should be written for. The reading was very long, and took a lot of time, but in the end it was worth it because it gave me and my group a much better understanding, which made us realize we had to revamp our proposal. This week I also spent a great deal of time chatting with my group members via email about who was in charge of what parts of the assignments.