Week 9

By midnight Monday, March 3rd

  • POST: A group White Paper Purpose Statement (attached).
  • READ: White Paper Design Elements (attached).
  • READ: Four InDesign tutorial documents: three word documents and one Adobe document (attached).
  • FAMILIARIZE yourself with InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, or another design program of your choice. You will be working on design elements beginning this week; it is important that AT LEAST one person in your group has a working knowledge of desktop publishing so that you can create a visually sophisticated document.
  • By midnight Wednesday, March 5th:

    Deliverable 2: Detailed Outline
  • POSTED TO OUTLINE NODE/TAG UNDER WHITE PAPER PROJECT: Detailed Outline of your group's White Paper. Your outlines should address (at least) the following:
    • What sections are you going to include in white paper (e.g. executive summary, previous approaches, proposed solutions, etc.)?
    • What will be the content of EACH of those sections of the white paper?
    • What sources will you use to help make your arguments for each of the sections (quotes from those sources, tables, statistics, etc.)?
    • What sources have you identified for use in the white paper (make a list of works cited in MLA format to attach to the outline)?

    By midnight Friday, March 7th:

  • POST to Research and Work(b)log (contributions to project thus far).
  • Continue researching and developing White Paper content and design.