English 420Y - Business Writing Online

This week we actually started our project and got the ball rolling. We started out the week by reviewing our Gantt chart and began working on our assigned materials. We have kept the lines of communication open quiet well and we are still effectively using email as our main source.

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.

This week I met online on Tuesday with Melissa Wood and Melissa Michels and we discussed the parameters of the assignment. Erik could not meet with us at that time because he works nights while the other group members have an internship in the morning and in the afternoon. In our meeting we planned out the contents of the brochure and the order of the information we were providing. We spent a while reading the website talking about the requirements for assignment and how were we going to split up the work.

Our group was very productive this week. We all worked very hard to get our first draft done on time and I think we all contributed equally. However, we had one problem this week. Nick had some personal issues that affected his work, although I believe that the group responded very well to the situation. Everyone was understand and all stepped up to complete the necessary work to complete our brochure. Stephanie and Nick were in charge of the text, while Rachel and I were responsible for the design.

This week has been dedicated to coming up with ideas and creating the general information brochure. I did a lot of research about the Humane Society on the internet as well as other similar organizations to get an idea of how to best create this brochure. I also spent time thinking about the best ways to communicate effectively with the target audience, which ranged anywhere from children to adults. I decided that the best way to do this was to keep the information as simple as possible, and also to present it in a way that is easy to sort through and pull out key points.

This week was a very productive week for my group and I. We really got a lot done and while we were working hard we really got to know each other and how we all work. We also learned how each one of us in the group work and how we work together in one unison group. The week started out good, Keeli wrote our first weekly activity report and before she emailed for our professor we all read it over and added in some of our own extra touches to it. On Sunday I also started designing our brochure for our group. This was a bit more challenging then I thought it would be.

This week our group had to do a lot of work in putting together our first draft for our brochure. I feel that we were pretty successful on our first draft but we also have room to improve it and make it more effective. The first thing that I did for the week was do a little more research for information that we could include on our brochure. I used some of the websites that were listed under the project to find out as much as I could about the Christmas party and CFRC.

This week our group split into two groups of two and each group handled one brochure. Steven and Daniel completed the General Information brochure and Alanya and I completed the Caring for Your Pet brochure. Since each of us had a specific part to complete, we didn't work together as a group of four a lot. However we offered the other group and helpful suggestions we had when we all got together. We set a Tuesday deadline for having our rough drafts done. We emailed each other the rough drafts to look over.

This week has been a very productive week for both myself and my group. To start the week off I posted a simple organizational layout for a tri fold brochure as an idea for my group to use. My group seemed to like the idea and that layout ended up being the organization we took when we designed the brochure. Next, I organized the research that I found on the internet. I went through and made sure that our group fulfilled all the requirements and that I found all the necessary information that we were supposed to put on the brochure.

As week 6 comes to a close, we have finished our first draft of both the general information brochure and caring for your pet brochure. As group leader, I sent out email reminders about everything that was due. I also made sure that everyone was clear what they had to finish. I helped answer questions. Beginning last weekend, I began communicating extensively with Pratyush since the two of us were in charge of the caring for your pet brochure. I emailed him with the topics and then allowed him to choose which subset he would like to write about.