ENGL 420: Business Writing

This week we viewed the you tube video about the gantt chart. I really have never used a gantt chart before this class and I hope that the experiance and technique in using one prepares me to do the project.

We also read the section on how to create a proposal for our client. That also included examples on how to create a proposal. I really don't think that was helpful. It contained too much information for a reference and really just needed to be summerized.

I really could not access my account on pearson it seems to be giving me problems.

This week was the first taste of what it will be like to work with a real world situation. Out of all of the projects I think that this one will teach us the most about how we will preform in a future job enviroment. I can't wait to start the project and I plan to give it my full effort and attention.

This week we had the online guidelines for the memo writing. We had to produce a 300 word document memo for the project and it was very helpful in producing the document. I think that it is very important for us as a group to retain any information possible to help us in this project.

This week we are in the early stages of the project. Today at 12pm, we will meet with Vison of Hope and have a tour of the facility. This non-profit is a facility for women who need help and wish to do so in a Chrisitian enviroment. Michael contacted the organization and Josh and myself will be going with him to sit down and discuss what the organization needs. We plan to go over future plans after the weekend.

This week was very hectic because of the project presenations, white paper revisions and begining of the service learning projects that were due. It was hard to keep it all balanced on top of other school work. My group did a very good job and I was happy to work with all of them. My only wish is that we would have had more time with the project.

This week was very challenging because we had to give our presentations on our White Paper projects. As well as read and get ready for our Service learning project. There seems to be alot of spefic criteria that has to be met when doing the project. This is going to make the search for the company that much more difficult because it has to be a non-profit organization and interested in our services.

This week our reading was focused on sample white papers. This visual representation of a finished product will help the group to know precisely what a white paper will consist of. Although I read the guidelines for the project I was still unsure what a white paper document looked like. Most importantly, because I do not have previous experience, I was unaware of the importance of a white paper in a business environment.

Our team so far is doing very well. We have turned in our memo and are in the process of completing our outline. Some of the progress has slowed a bit because of conflicting schedules but we are still on time with our assignment. Right now we have divided the group by labor.

My job is to do the research for the background information. I have many book , article, and encyclopedia information. I will need to get more sources from professionals. We are in the early stage of constructing a draft for the paper. But I think it will be great.

My role in the white paper project thus far has been to research health care to answer three questions. One what precisely is health care. Two how is health care distributed in the United States. Finally three what is the problem concerning health care for small business today. These three sources have helped to answer these questions.

1. Understanding Health Policy A Clinical Approach
2. Economics History Sites
3. Our Unsystematic Health Care System

This week our class began our white paper project which involves find an ethical, controversial, or technological problem related to the professional world and offering solutions to that. Our group has chosen to develop Health Insurance costs for Small Businesses. The first task assigned to the group was to write a memo. The reading for this week explained the purpose of a memo, how to format it and provided samples to reference to. These pieces of information were very helpful in developing the memo.