English 420Y - Business Writing Online

This week my group worked on putting together and revising out first brochure draft. We had divided the work equally in our group. My main propose was to gather and organize the information for the Christmas dinner brochure along with Bill. After getting to know what our parts were I went ahead and opened all the files and links for our project on the English website. After looking at the examples and understanding them clearly. I Started to brain storm for some ideas regarding what we could put in our Christmas dinner brochure.

It seemed that dividing up the work worked better for our group. We divided the work into gathering information, designing the brochures, and revising the work. Since one of our members is really acquainted with pet he volunteered to work complete the pet brochure. On the other hand, Maria worked on the design of the brochure while Roy created the information brochure for the humane society and I was responsible for revising it.

This week seemed to be smoother then the last week. Now that our group is acquainted we began the week by dividing up the brochures. Because I work in the animal field I decided that I would make the best contribution completing the pet brochure. Maria did an excellent job finding a design that was appealing yet not too distracting. She also helped me in some of the writing and formatting of the brochure. We worked great together and got a draft sent to Roy by Wednesday evening. Roy and Gwenda worked on the information brochure on the humane society.

This week has been very busy creating our first draft of general information brochure. Since I was responsible for designing the brochure, I started brainstorming last weekend about the big frame. I searched for various brochures that are already made to get some ideas and broad a perspective. I focused on the organization of information, the way to place each section effectively. Also I searched for the pictures I will be including along contents that can match to the background colors as well.

Our group met in an AIM chat room to discuss which group members will be writing their own part on a topic needed for the brochure. I typed my part on the information about the CFRC Christmas Day Dinner. Our group had decided the night before on a time to meet the following where everyone could meet at the same time. I emailed all the members my section to review. Once our group met the following night, we exchanged all of our parts to be reviewed and put together our brochure.

Week 6 was really busy for me as well as my group members. In this week we managed to get our first drafts ready of both the general information brochure as well as the caring for your pet brochure. We communicated through emails and helped each other with questions. Since I was in charge for researching the topic, beginning last weekend, I started working on it. Researching is not an easy job and especially when we have too much information. I collected all the information I could. Kim and I divided the work equally among both of us. She took a set of topics and I took another.

We started out week 6 by assigning individual parts of the brochure. Meepa, Beth, and I wrote the articles for the brochure. After we finished our individual articles, we emailed them to Pat, who was in charge of putting them together and working on the design. I think we did a pretty good job of sticking to the original plans and keeping the communication going. We have continued to use email as our main source of communication. After finishing the first draft, we have all come up with some good ideas for the next draft.

Over the weekend, I e-mailed the members of my group about the upcoming week’s rough draft due. Each member started thinking of ideas and researched the Community Family and Resource Center. We met in a group chat on AIM on Monday night and shared our ideas. We also divided the textual part of the brochure between each member. We agreed to meet again on Tuesday night and I sent out a reminder e-mail with the time for both time zones and which part each member was supposed to write. I wrote about the volunteer opportunities.

This week was very busy the our group. I was unable to contribute to the first draft of the brochure because of family problems. On Sunday I wrote the Activity Report for the group, which was one on my responsibilities from the Gnatt chart. I continued to communicate with my group through the wiki page that was provided. This has been an effective tool in eliminating confusion about were we can exchange ideas. Since I did not work on the first draft I have spent this week reviewing the brochure my group submitted and taking notes on things I thought could be changed.

This past week has been a very busy week for our group. Together we put together two very nice brochures. We decided to use Microsoft Publisher as our desktop publishing software. This is supposed to be a very simple program to use, and it allows us to put together a very professional brochure. The downside to this program is that I do not have Microsoft Publisher on my computer. This has limited me to only editing and sending pictures and content for the brochure.