English 420Y - Business Writing Online

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This week was quite hectic for me. I stepped up and decided to revise our general information brochure. Our brochure was very different from what the client wanted. They wanted something much more bold and colorful. Also they wanted more “cute” pictures used on our brochure. I tried to first change the template we had used on our brochure in publisher but that did not work out too well so I manually redesigned the whole brochure. I used a lot of pictures off their website. I think that works quite well because what better animals to show than those at the shelter.

This week I finished revising the final draft of the Caring for Your Pet brochure. I looked over the comments that the Humane Society made and also the comments that Ryan had made. First I made sure I had done everything that they suggested I do. After that I emailed Alayna my revisions up to that point. They mostly consisted of changing the font back to yellow and fixing some spacing errors. Alayna worked on the context revisions and emailed me back the brochure. There were still three errors that we couldn't figure out how to fix.

This week my group and I worked very diligently for the completion of our project. We took into consideration all of the comments made from both Weber's Group #3 and from the CFRC. My group members and I proceeded with the final draft in an assembly format. Marius initiated making the revisions for the final draft on Sunday and the outcome was very pleasant. The next piece of advice from both the CFRC and Weber's Group #3 was to add a background and more visuals. I added another visual and found a complementary background that looked very nice.

This week was very successful for our group. On Saturday night, I talked to David on AIM and he sent me his changes to the brochure. He changed the Santa graphic to say “Bring Out Your Inner Santa” instead of “Bring Out The Inner Santa.” After he sent me the new Santa graphic, I formatted it so the background would match our background color. I e-mailed my group members on Saturday to figure out times for availability to meet. Due to different schedules, I met with Ben on Monday night on AIM and we worked on the changes that the CFRC commented on our brochure.

This week was another busy week for our group. Once again our group split up the work so that we could divide the work and all do our part. Kim and Pratyush worked on the Caring document while Soo Yun and I worked on the General information document. I am not sure how Kim and Pratyush split up the work, but Soo Yun and I split it up so that she would do the design after I emailed her my revisions. The reason that we split the work up this way is because I do not have Microsoft Publisher. We made our revisions after the Clinton County Humane Society made their comments.

This week went very well with the project. We received feedback from members of group 1 of Tirrell’s class, the Humane Society, and the instructor the week before and this week we applied those revisions to the project. The Humane Society had a lot of constructive criticism which gave the group a different perspective to look at when editing both brochures. Stephen had emailed his changes to me over the weekend because he was going out of town and would not have access to a computer. No problems came up since no one had to take over his part in the project.

It was last week of making the final revision of the brochure. I was in charge of general information brochure from the beginning so I continued making the brochure look more professional. First I went over the comments of our instructor for the second draft. Then I reviewed the comments from Clinton Humane Society. I started making changes of what our instructor has made and then focused on what Humane Society asked us for.

The week 7 was more challenging than last week since there were second draft to due, peer editing and reading response. I revised the general information brochure as the comments from our instructor. There was huge change in the contents since I was confused with The Humane Society in United Sates and Clinton Humane Society in Indiana. So we had to actually change all the information we provided in the first draft into information from Indiana’s Clinton Humane Society into our own words.

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.