English 421: Technical Writing

When this ship building exercise started I was wondering what this had to do with the class, and even the white paper.   When we started working on the project I started to wonder how this applied to the class.  Then I had a good idea.  I figured out that this ship building exercise is a good way to explain visually how to work in groups, have information that needs to be sorted, and finally present it in a way that is presentable.  This is a very good example of the process that needs to be taken during a white paper exercise.  This is a good example of multiple groups doing several different actions to accomplish a common goal.  This will need to be done in our own personal groups.  In our own personal groups we will need to all do research and then take all of the data and mesh them just like the multiple parts of the pirate ship. 

Josh