ENGL 420: Business Writing

This weeks readings were about oral presentations, which is basically preparing us for our final project. I think this reading was just as helpful as all the others have been just by helping us to find the little mistakes we have in our presentation and fix them. The key element this reading gave to me was the guidlines to a formal oral presentation, I think that with todays modern world it is very easy to unintentionally become informal and friendly with the way we speak to others.

This weeks readings were about plagarism. Though I am aware that this goes on in our madern day world, I find myself wonder how stiff these rules will become. Eventually you would have to think that almost everything you you could write about would have already been writin by someone else somewhere else. Would it not be possible for someone to think the excact same thing that sombody else had at a different time?

This week’s reading was about the ten rules of proposals. I think that this reading will help us not to make mistakes in our final project. Coincidently the topic that I read in class seemed to be the most important rule to me, it was rule number three. This seemed important to me because it was about credibility and without credibility your entire project loses any readers interest.

This week our project to beginning to take shape and we have already completed the two page proposal. Today we had a meeting out of class to discuss the division of labor and set up a gannt chart. After successfully completing a gannt chart for our project our team has become aware of the short amount of time we have to complete this project. We plan to stay slightly ahead of our class deadlines so there is ample time for our client to approve our brochure. Overall, our team is looking forward to the final product with very high expectations of ourselves.

This weeks reading was focused on helping us to prepare to begin writing the thrid project. I think this reading will help throughout the next couple of weeks to refrence back to and double check that each component of the paper is correct. I liked the part about how not only are you suppose to adress the business like they are in trested in your topic but also like they are skeptical about the whole idea. I think this gives us more of a reson to prove how and why our services are needed to the organization.

So far my best two ideas are an organization called Little Gridiron football and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Lafayette. I like these two organizations mainly because they both focus on keeping our youth involved and out of trouble. As of right now I think it would be beneficial for both of these organizations two have better advertisement of some sort. The Big Brothers and Big Sisters I think could use better advertising on campus to get more students involved in helping young people and maybe taking these ethics back home with them to further help the organization as a whole.

This week our reading was the bad white paper examples. this reading helped me to for-see problems with this project before we made them. I think the reading will be extremely beneficial in the end by make our white paper that much better.

This week our white paper is finally starting to come together. Now that our rough draft has come together i cant wait to start peacing in the whitepaper to make it look professional and complete. This project so far has been helping me to become better at professional writing and it has taught me what a white paper is, which considering my major i think will come in good use in the future.

This week our team has made alot of progress towards the white paper. I can see how it is all coming together now and i am excited about the finished result. My role has been mostly research and i am finding some pretty good soluitons.

This week our reading assignment was on how to write a memo and the guidelines for memo writing. I think that this material was incredibly helpful in understanding how to lay it out in a professional format. I have not written any papers as formal as this and I am kind of excited to see how it turns out.