English 420Y - Business Writing Online

This is the final work blog for the service learning project. My work week began over the weekend. After reviewing the comments left by the peers and the CFRC I began to brainstorm new ideas for the brochure. I made some quick changes on the brochure that they had requested and attempted to send this out to the group. The file was too big and I later sent this file over AIM to some of the members. Our group spoke via email to set up times to continue to discuss changes needed for the brochure. I reviewed the group update to be sent to the instructor over the weekend and submitted my changes.

This week was a good week for our team. I think we made great strides to improving our brochure. At the end of last week our team read the comments and was not happy with the results. Over the weekend I began editing the brochure. I made a new cover and edited the image to say, “Bring out the inner santa.” I also redesigned the mail inform to look more professional. I then sent this update to everyone else in the group with other suggestions that they could work on. I was in contact with the group members over the weekend and we discussed our thoughts on changes.

5:00 Appeal to Emotions: It is my feeling that this brochure plays towards peoples emotions. It makes people remember Christmas. Also, phrases like, “Bring out the inner Santa” and “Santa’s nice list” make the reader feel more obligated to participate +

4:00 Be Professional: I think that our photos look professional. There could be some tweaking to make sure they looks slightly better, but what we were provide with we couldn’t have done much better. I also like the placement. +

This week my team worked on the first draft of our brochure. The week began with me writing the pervious weeks report to the professor. On Monday I met my team in an AIM chat room. This allowed us to discuss our project and the plans we have for it. We decided to break up parts of the project so that each person could work and then we could get together later. I was responsible for creating a statement on how people can volunteer. On Tuesday our team again met in a chat room and we all reviewed each others statements.

Before reading the book I thought it would be pretty simple to just throw all the required information on a sheet of paper in a good order; however, after reading the book there is much more to this. It is important to have relationships between the images and the surrounding text. The words, images, color, data can appeal to readers. Good chart that lays out the visual form and the functions of each. The book includes a good project checklist that lays our rules for integrating images and tables into text. I plan on using this to help out with our project.

I first found out my team members through an email sent from the professor. I responded to all providing them with my cell phone, and screen name. I later reviewed some of their material on the website. I was excited because it seemed as though they had been keeping up with their work so far. Wednesday night I was contacted by Megan on AIM. We discussed our thoughts on the project and made plans to speak Thursday night.

For my brochure I found how to build and install a rain barrel also, how to install a rain garden. These can be found at this link:

http://www.cwp.org/Community_Watersheds/brochure.pdf

This is my final corporate project

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In addition to watching the video posted by the instructor I watch another video on youtube that documented the struggle of 4 young men to get home. The link can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOo-tG9q2h0&mode=related&search=