English 421: Technical Writing

 My revision to the Employment project is below in an attachment.  I have already turned in a hard copy. 

Sean

For my final project log, our group presented our multimedia project and has finished all of the required material for this class.  Most of the content for the project log is shown in last weeks log, because there was nothing new since then. 

Sean

For week 14, I believe that week counted as Thanksgiving break, so there was no group activity.  For week 15, our group decided that we would meet on Monday the 8th to make a powerpoint for our multimedia project. 

What to Document

This week our group finished up the final draft for the white paper project.  We also wrote the rough draft for the usability project.  I was in charge of help with the finishing touches for the white paper project.  Greg reworked the formatting of the figures while I made sure numbers of figures and the wording was correct.  For the usability project, I wrote one of the sections and had everyone else e-mail their sections to me.  I then put all of the sections together.

Sean

For this week, our group did not do very much with regard to our project.  We collaborated a little about the usability project, but we are planning to work on it in class tuesday. 

Twelve Tips for Team Building

For the white paper project, our group wrote up the questions for the usability test. This was done on Thursday during class.  We have turned our first set of questions.  We will send another round of questions once the first set is returned.  This is because we have two Web2.0 applications and the first set will decide which application will be used.  We want to have them use the application that will help them more. 

Sean

Project Management Techniques

For this week's weekly article, I decided to look ahead and find an article that deals with the next project.  For those who have not looked, the next project is the Documentation Project.  One of the requirements of the project is project management.  I found an article that talks about time management and gives many links to different websites dealing with particular sections of time management.

This week I turned worked on my section of the rough draft and it was turned in on tuesday.  In class tuesday, Josh and I took our two rough drafts and combined them into one larger draft.  This was because we split up ididwork.com.  We had to make sure the wording was the same and the pictures were roughly the same size.  Wednesday night, our group met to put together the entire rough draft and fix our annotated bibliography.  I wrote the conclusion to the rough draft as well as help bring the two websites together.  We turned in our complete rough draft on th