English 420Y - Business Writing Online

As Week 5 comes to a close, our group is continuing to work hard to prepare for our service learning project. After learning my group members, I quickly emailed them to introduce myself. I have continued to write informative emails all week to update them with what is happening. I have done a good job responding to emails in a timely manner. My emails included details on how to organize the group and asking for volunteers for the different aspects of the project. After continuing correspondence, I have assumed the role of the group leader.

Our group introduced ourselves this week via the wiki page. We met on Thursday night on AIM and discussed what we would need to do to accomplish the brochures. I recommened making 2 groups of 2 with each team doing a brochure. The group agreed on this idea. Daniel and I are working on the general brochure. Daniel will be doing the design while I will be focusing on the content of the brochure. Alayna and Cory will be working on the Caring for your pet brochure. Alayna will focus on the content and Cory will be working on the design.

This week was only the preliminary stages of the project. I fortunately have an excellent group. We all introduced ourselves via e-mail and are trying to figure out exactly how the team is going to work together to finish this project.

The reading Brochure I found can be seen at:
http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/support/brochure/pdf/r30.pdf .

I think the first page of the brochure is very efficient, it calls attention, its contrasting, accurate, and pertinent. Yet the second part of the brochure (pg 2) has a lot of writting jammed into it. If looks crowed and its very confusing. It lacks contrasts, however its very pertinent to the specification and requierements one must know when purchasing a camera.

I tried to put it in PDF, but it was impossible with my internet connection to utilized DACs. I tried downloading the software from:
http://dacs.ics.purdue.edu

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.

http://www.oed.com/pdfs/oed-brochure.pdf

The Brochure I chose was of The Oxford English Dictionary Online. The brochure talks about the history of the oxford dictionary on one page and then goes on to talk about the benefits of having the dictionary online. It talks of the different features the online dictionary will have its user friendliness and finally asks for help from the public to update the dictionary.

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http://www.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au/region/Arts/ArtsCentre/ArtsBrochure.pdf

The brochure I found was put out by the US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, and the American Red Cross. It is an informative document about disaster preparedness and includes a special tornado safety section aimed at schools. The document can be found at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/ttl.pdf.