ENGL 420: Business Writing

White Paper finished!!!

This weeks progress is looking a lot better than last weeks. As you would expect you would be better than the week before. I was honestly very concerned about our ability to get all the information we need, but we did. Our design is coming together quite well. I really like how our title page is set up, it is not too much, but gets to the point. I am very disappointed in the fact it would not print this morning so we could not get any feedback on our progress from other groups, but that happens and you can't control it, I am just glad it was for the rough draft and not the final.

Our team has made a lot of strides in this one week. We have gained the knowledge needed to get this work done. The most interesting part of the project, in my opinion will be designing the white paper. I talked with my mother about this project and she is employed in a corporation that uses internal white papers all the time. The designs she showed me was so neat, because there are so many ways to do the graphics and the title page, even the table of content, and the design of the entire document. I am in charge of the visuals and the design and very excited about that.

This first real week of working on the white paper project went as expected. We met one time during the week to discuss what role each of us would play in writing the memo. Our group decided that one person would work on the introduction, while the others would be working on the three solutions to the problem. This week consisted of a lot of research on the piracy issues in China, this all collaborated to create our first deliverable; the memo. Overall I am happy that we all were able to contribute about the same amount to this project, with little confusion.

Friday helped! We've narrowed down our problem and found some good issues. I think our solutions are going to take a little work, but I like the direction we're heading. I'd like to make a little apology to the rest of my group because I've been slacking a bit on helping out. I am glad to note that I'm thinking about quitting my job which should give me a bunch of more time to help from here on out.

So far I think that our project has been going pretty well, but the one problem that I've noticed is a lack of clarity and communication. Our entire team has been working very hard on our project and I think that we have a lot of great ideas and research about Piracy of software in China, and I think that this is certainly a unique topic and idea that hasn't been explored as much as most other controversial other topics, probably mainly due to the fact that people don't usually feel much sympathy for large software companies like microsoft or software pirates (the two sides of this issue).

Our topic surrounds the software sharing abilities in China with regards to Microsoft. This problem is due to the growing ability to share things via the internet. We are presenting a problem that surrounds this issue, one of the biggest problems from our perspective we believe the finacial implications of this problem is huge, but we also are realizing that is from which perspective. From China's perspective they would disagree because they are more collectivist society and are not feeling the cost effects of software file sharing, while Microsoft is.

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