English 420Y - Business Writing Online

This week has really seemed to pull the group together more then any other week. I think this is mostly due to the important due date that was approaching, but everyone took the lead on the part of the project that they had responsibility for. Everyday when I opened my email I recieved at least one email from my group members. Everyone was coming up with suggestions of ways to change the brochure to make it better and editing the writing. I personally made contacts early in the week to try and make sure everyone was on the same page with completing everything by the due date.

This has been a very interesting week for me. I left a week ago to spend a week in the Bahamas. This created some interesting things for my week. First, I had to work to get as much accomplished before I left as I could. This meant that I had to do my Reading Response before our second draft had been accomplished. I used out first draft instead. I think this is actually going to be beneficial because we can use my responses to see how our second draft was improved. Second, I did not think that I was going to be able to get my peer review of another group's brochure done.

Because I will not be around for the next week, I am taking care of this assignment today. However, I am forced to use our first draft for the brochure without any editting. I think this will actually help us understand if our second draft is actually an improvement or not.

My "5 Minute Brochure Design Trash Test"
Appeal to Emotions: (-)

This week was filled with a lot of group collaboration. We had previously divided up the topics which needed an article to be written about. There were a couple questions regarding the legnth and detail that needed to be in each article, so emails went around between the group members. Meepa, Rachel, and I all wrote articles. Specifically, I wrote the article about the volunteer opportunities and the event discription. I tried to make them interesting to read with a more casual tone. I wanted the people who read it to feel included as part of the community and willing to help out as well.

First, because I know all my group members will be reading this post, I would like to thank Pat for working hard and getting this first draft up. I think it is a really good first draft. I think there is a lot of areas in which we can improve, but I think this is a great starting point.

Initiating contact and establishing roles is sometimes the hardest part of group word. However, our group did a good job of getting started working on this project. We all quickly responded to initial emails. We first introduced ourselves and commented about how we were excited to work together on the project. My first response to my group was one of excitement. I was glad to see that everyone was checking their email regularly and responded to my email. Even when Patrick went to Chicago, we still heard back from him. The first order of business for our group was to create our Gantt Chart.

Attached is our Gantt Chart

http://smirh.com/bootsfinehomes/ConnectionsBrochure.pdf

This brochure is for Century 21. It is discussing the possibility fo earing Air Miles, which are similar to frequest flyer miles, through Century 21. This brochure is of a trifold design which creates three columns on each side of the paper.

Attached is my final project for the Corporate Project

Please offer comments for my letter.