Week 7- Feb 18 - 24

By Monday, February 18 by midnight:

    White Paper Project
  • Review the Project 2 overview prior to discussing the project with other group members. Begin to get organized by discussing--via email, IM, or chatbox--the requirements of the project.
  • Read "How to Write White Papers," by Stelzner Consulting. To read the full document, you'll need to request that they email it to you (for free).
  • Read three white papers: Effective Marketing Using White Papers, Creating White Papers That Drive Sales, and either Integrating Financial Education into School Curricula (PDF) or Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) (PDF)
  • Post an intial reading response to this prompt: What's the main difference between white papers that report on a subject and ones that sells a product or a policy? Is the distinction always clear? What are the ethical issue involved in using the white paper genre to argue a policy or sell a product?

    • By Wednesday, February 20 by midnight:

      Each group will
  • Email the instructor with your team name and your decision for the topic of your white paper.
      • Each group member will
  • Read Forming: Structure, Group Maintenance Roles and Task Roles in the Guide to Group Work and Collaborative Writing.
  • Post a reading response in answer to the following prompt: discuss your previous experiences working in groups. Have they been mainly positive or negative? What led to these results - individual members, the work involved, and/or the processes followed by the group? And also, what have you learned from the reading that you can apply to the group projects this semester?

    • By Friday, February 22 by midnight:

      Each group member will
  • Post a reading response to this prompt: How has your knowledge of white papers improved and changed over the past few days?? How can you apply this knowledge to your group and your topic?
  • Your individual project log should be completed and posted in your blog by tonight. See the Project Log Guidelines. For the remainder of this project, logs will be due every Friday night.
      • Each group will
  • Begin researching their white paper topic in preparation for the proposal that is due on Monday night at midnight.

    • Continue posting comments and replies using Principles for Comments and Replies. You need five (5) for this week.

    Check out Week 8. No later than today, you should read through the course calendar for the following week. If you have any questions, contact the instructor.