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Submitted by jtmichae on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 11:21

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.

English 421=Shipbuilding 101?

Submitted by vintagemmv on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 17:14
While I was evaluating potential strategies in my head, my initial response was to hang back and see what other people thought.  With such a large group of peers, no clear command structure existed, and I was hesitant to give my input for fear of appearing to "take control."  I think this observation applies to the white paper project, especially since we will be writing in groups.  While a rigid command structure is not crucial to group writing--and in the case of writing with peers may actually be detrimental--, a form of defined leadership helps

AAAARRRRGGG!!! It's the Ghost Ship

Submitted by plewis on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 15:35

  The reason that building the ship will help us in this class is because it is a great example of why technical writing is so important, especially for models and anything else that the user may not fully understand when putting it together.  The directions must be written so well that a totally ignorant person can understand them.  Without good technical writing those instructions for the ship would have been impossible to put together, but the directions were written well enough that we could still put them in order and get the parts put toget

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