English 421: Technical Writing

After the the deadline of the white paper was pushed back, our group (Jagerbombers) spent some time polishing up our paper and adding visuals. We got together in class and discussed how we can "sell" our collaboration application to the groups in Cat's other class. We typed up our memo to Drive-Thru Marketing to show the things they could do using Sosius.

~Tianyi

For this week we typed up questions to ask Flex Adventures regarding how they plan on utilizing Planzone. We will we be asking questions to better understand how we should tailor our technical white writing for their usage.  Our questions reflected our interest in; their skill level, the features that they will most utilize, and how they previously planned projects. 

Ok so being as the white paper is way played out, and usability isnt very exciting I decided to follow suit with the rest of the class and pick something having to do with the election. Attached is an article that I found to be very interesting. It goes into detail about how our election system was formed and then modified over the years. Yes it has some flaws (big ones in my opinion) but this article gives you some reasons why it is the way that it is.

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  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

 Ten Future Web Trends

In his post "'The Way' to Get White Paper Experience," Michael Stelzner responds to a question posed by a reader.  How do you learn how to write a white paper?  Stelzner suggests three steps to become an effective white paper writer.  First, look at other white papers and observe what the authors do.  What tricks do they use to communicate effectively?  Second, write a white paper.  Sometimes the most effective way to learn is by doing.  Finally, sell a white pap

With today being election day, I decided to find an article dealing with technical writing on politics. This article describes how the Bush administration may have doctored or altered a white paper providing extra incentive to invade Iraq. Apparently the White House wrote the white paper justifying the invasion several months before the full intelligence report had been compiled.