English 420Y - Business Writing Online

I started this week off with writing the group activity report for week 6 over the weekend. I mailed the report to the group for some feedback and Alex turned it with some minor additions. This week I completed the caring for your pet brochure and turned it as draft 3 for the caring brochure. I completed the second page of the brochure and made a lot of edits in accordance to the feedback provided to me the instructor. The caring for you pet brochure now looks very consistent and much more visually effective.

5:00 – Appeal to Emotions (+)
I think that both our brochures have a strong appeal to their audiences’ emotions. The images and graphics used in both the brochures, while informative, are very emotionally compelling. However, I do feel that some pictures need to be adjusted and altered a little to create an even stronger effect. Overall text content is very good and appealing in both brochures.

4:00 – Be Professional (+)

Second Draft as as 2 images

Due to some logistical issues(No internet access due to storm), Alex will post the General Information Brochure in the morning. Here are the copies of "Caring for your Pet" brochure (Pg 2 text shall be added shortly). I shall update the file as soon as some issues are sorted with the formatting.

From a group perspective, this week started out slowly for our group but the communication and collaboration picked up a lot today. We started off by introduction and exchanging contact information through e-mail. I provided my group member with my cell number for future immediate contact. After going through the project description an analyzing the logistics of the group I suggested that we should pull our groups target date for deliverables by two days.

I am attaching an updated and more detailed copy of our groups Gantt Chart. We Shall be following this more closely and using this one.

The brochure I found was put out by the American Red Cross Organization and it talks about family contingency plans in case of various natural disasters. This is a very informative brochure and is organized in a very logical way. It starts by creating awareness about disasters and portrays through images the places the natural disasters can occur. The brochure then moves onto steps required to ensure family safety, methods of loss and damage prevention and then provides a to-do list in case a disaster does occur.

I was having problem with the adobe software on my computer. Finally got it to work. Sorry about the half hour delay.

Would really appreciate some feedback!

Would really appreciate some feedback.