English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

Individual Work Blog
Date: April 12, 2009
To: Professor Tirrell
From: Zebulon Rouse, Group 7
Subject: Individual Activity Report 2

This report is the summary of the progress toward the White Paper project, starting from last Sunday (April 6) to today (April 12).

Throughout this week, we started to split up the researching assignments. My part is researching on the public opinion of all three phones. The other part I contributed to the project was writing the weekly group activity report.
Researching for the public opinion, I mainly used Google and other search engines to find online reviews and comparisons of all three phones. After I found the reviews, I started to take notes and saving the addresses to a word document. I posted the word document to the common area on Microsoft live so that the other group members can use the same websites to find their information. I have accumulated valuable information that I will contribute to my section of the White Paper project.

For the group weekly activity report, I compiled all the groups’ actions that occurred throughout the week. Our group communicated again via email and was allowed to assign tasks to each person to research and who was going to build the gantt chart. This week I was busy with other school projects so Scott Stella took over this portion. After he complete the projected I reviewed the gantt chart and pointed out a value that was miss entered.

Overall, I feel that each member of the group is contributing very well to the project. All of the communication problems are clearing up and the group coming together more by each assignment.