This week's readings where particular interesting and especially the parts regarding the differences among men and women. During class we had a discussion about the differences and no one seemed to disagree. I liked it when our professor mentioned, "we're not more or less equal, only different." This is exactly right.
This week the only actually assigned reading we had was the client project criteria. After reading it thoroughly it seems there is a A LOT of room for creativity. This will most likely be the most team-intensive but also rewarding and easiest to assemble project. Here's why.
This week we finally finished our white paper project. It doesn't seem like it took that long to do, and now we're on our final project. After reading the criteria, it doesn't seem like it will be difficult.
The first client that came to mind is the local Humane Society. Mainly, because we just did our previous white paper on the problems with overpopulation in the area. Also, I volunteer there on select weekends and no the facility and people. I'm not sure exactly what we could to for them, but I know they're always in need of extra help in every department.
This week we had almost nothing to read in class, except our fellow classmates white papers. I only read one, and glanced at another. This is because they were all very long. What I noticed the most is how hard combining the writing from group members can be. Everyone has small habits in writing. Some people writing long, stream-of-consciousness sentences. Some people are very matter of fact. Inside of my own group members I could notice who wrote which sections just by their styles.
This week we have officially finished the white paper. It's relieving because it was an incredibly busy week. I do think the paper is very polished now after our collective peer reviews. My job was to put the take the peer and group suggestions for formatting and design and print the final paper. It was important because Microsoft Publisher was very finicky and would add gaps depending on the machine it was viewed on. I did all of the final revisions locally and converted it to a .pdf document for redundancy.
This week's reading response is over the how-to-avoid-bad-presentations powerpoint. There was nothing new or extraordinary inside it, but it is still something that although covered for a very long time in different courses, a lot of my classmates still stumble upon. The biggest problem presentation I'm still encountering in college is "reading straight from-the-freaking slide". Second only is the "one giant paragraph slide".
This week we put together our first rough draft. I am pleased with it. The other members of my group worked on research up until this point and had begun writing the paper exclusively via google docs during the course of the previous two meetings (on wednesdays at 5:30pm). I however, have contributed very little besides attendance as and some mild research. However, this week was where my job became hard. The rough draft was due and the entire design aspect rests on me since I had the design experience.
Keeping with my assigned responsibility for our white paper project, my reading response is about formatting and design.
So far, our project is in its infancy, however is making progress. All of our team member's seem responsible and motivated. We have assigned 3 members to research solutions and backgrounds and I am assigned the design and formatting compliance part.
This week we had one meeting that I did not attend. I agreed to do the formatting which so far has amounted to creating appealing graphs for statistics cited. The other 3 members contributed to the outline's content. Sarah came up with the name, "It's Raining Cats & Dogs: (humane society issues or something goes here)"
My reading response this weeks is plural. I found two articles that caught my eye: the OWL's directions on writing a memo, and the Pearson Online's article on how to profile your audience.