English 421: Technical Writing

 This week and next week will be filled with finishing up anything that is left to do for any and all projects left to do.  On tuesday of this week we presented our rough draft of the multimedia project.  This was a powerpoint that John had put together with our help on the content.  During the presentation I talked about a couple of how-tos and about the subscription and credit parts of Skype.  After the presentation our group decided to have our evaluations done on Thursday before class, so we can all sign them at Scotty's.

I'm not sure what week it was exactly, but for the most part we all finished our pieces on the white paper and discussed the usability project.  On the tuesday before Thanksgiving our final white paper was submitted.  Our main focus now is to work on the usability project.

Short and sweet

--Aaron

 Manswers

Last week we continued to work on our rough draft.  We got our first rough drafts back and were given the grading criteria to help us determine what needs to be fixed on the papers.  My sections mainly need some proofreading, adding some pictures, and adding to one of my sections.  We plan to have our sections ready as soon as possible.

--Aaron

Well here is some of the same old article stuf that has to deal with Microsoft and what they do to research usability of their products.

Microsoft Usability Research

 This week I continued to try to improve my section of the white paper.  I am still having a hard time finding a good source on the hardware end of VoIP.  In class we began to create our Test Plan.  Here I helped formulate questions to ask our users about their current knowledge and experience with VoIP and Skype.  Along with that we began to plan ahead with what needs to be done when and how much time we will have to finish our project.

--Aaron

  Electoral College

With the recent election, a lot of people are excited about how the process works.  They are also usually confused about why the president is picked by the electoral college and not by the popular vote.  This article goes into detail about how the electoral process works.  This article goes into the history of the electoral college, how the electors are selected, how the electoral votes are distributed, and the big debate over the electoral vote

This week I continued to research and try to find a strong and solid source that would list the different hardware needed and what is will be used for.  On Wednesday, I finished a very rough draft of my sections.  On Thursday as a group we put together our rough draft and began putting together our memos to the companies we plan to contact.  We are contacting FoundIT and pimpmydorm.com.  We have agreed to continue to refine our sections and that on the forum and this coming Tuesday, we will continue to revise our white paper.

--Aaron 

 - Pardon the lateness

Choosing and Writing for an Audience