English 420, Business Writing

This week we got together on Wednesday for class and talked about the last week of the project. We talked about which places we would each go to find out about business cards prices and such. We are each going to go to a place that sells business cards and then we are going to write up a document about that specific place. We are also going to write up the Hookah! analysis this week. We also talked briefly about the presentation and what we are going to say.

This week, we had our meeting with Mr. Hannah on Wednesday during class time. Our group met about twenty minutes before our meeting and talked about what we needed to do for the rest of the week. We finalized our dates for the project, and if everything goes to plan we should be done with the project by next Sunday.

We finally got a chance to talk to Maisa and she told us the specials for Grand Prix week. I made some flyers to promote the specials and sent them to her via email.

This week I went to the Egyptian and we got our timeline approved. Maisa requested that we send all the documents to her via email. I also talked to her about her computer/software knowledge and she said that she is a teacher and is very familiar with all the latest software.

On Monday last week, we got started on the Service Learning Project. We wrote the group deliverable one for the project and decided that our best idea was to contact the Egyptian Hookah Bar on Northwestern.

This week we continued to edit our paper. Josh and I met on Wednesday and we all met on Thursday to work on the paper, edit the presentation, and finish the handout. On Wednesday, Josh wrote the introduction and we put our parts together. We also changed the format of the paper and added in subtitles to make it more organized. We included advantages and disadvantages to each option.

I did not think we needed to do another worklog entry because we were originally only supposed to do four, but I did one just in case.

We got the rough draft of the paper back this week and we started revising it. We created the three options individually and then put them together so the paper is not cohesive. We have to include an introduction and more of a conclusion. We also have to support our claims by tying it back to the company profile. To make the paper flow better, we have to include more transitions and tweak the language a bit.

On Monday we got started on the Service Learning Project. We wrote the group deliverable one for the project and decided that our best idea was to contact the Egyptian Hookah Bar on Northwestern.

Please see the attached document.

Jackie McKee

The week before Spring Break our group met and worked on the paper. We divided the work up so that each person had something different to research and write about. Catherine worked on the advertising website option and Josh worked on creating the website in-house option. I worked on the outsourcing option. I included things like cost, pros and cons to the option. I also have the reader some information about how to choose a company that did that kind of work (what to look for basically).

On Monday, we did our technology presentation.

During the rest of the week we researched more about our project and decided what parts we are going to include in our three options of the paper. We also started writing a little bit so that we had some writing to present on Friday for our group meeting.