English 420, Business Writing

This last week of work for the white paper project was focused on final revisions of the white paper as well as preparing our group presentation of our technology recommendations for Knight Corporation. We met after class on Monday and used that time to get our presentation organized as well as continue editing on our white paper, concentrating on the design aspect of the final paper. My main focus was breaking up my section of writing for the white paper by making a table comparing the four PDAs that I am suggesting that Knight Corporation choose from.

Technology Team Proposal

Underground Printing
314 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Phone: 765-588-3851
Fax: 765-743-3223

Mission: Offers custom t-shirts and apparel at the cheapest prices and fastest turnaround. Also, Underground printing is an official Greek licensed screen printer, as well as collegiate licensed here at Purdue.

Research:

Attached is our Service Learning Project memo.

The week before Spring Break was a busy one for the technology team. We gave our presentation on Movie Maker on Monday, which went well. We really got a good grasp on the program in our group meetings and were able to run through the presentation just as we had practiced it. After we gave the presentation we switched our focus back to the white paper and worked really hard to complete the rough draft for Friday. Everyone in the team did a good job getting their individual parts completed which allowed us to work on piecing the paper together on Wednesday.

At the beginning of this week we decided on the subjects that each group member was going to be covering, and began writing each section individually so we could concentrate on design elements and meshing all the parts together this week coming up. Myself and Nathan met with Mr. Hannah on Thursday and had a good talk about expanding on the technologies that we have decided on to show Knight Corporation how each technology will make them better compatable with other companies that they will be doing business with.

This week we met twice as a group to discuss and design our technology project that we will be presenting on Wednesday this week. In these meetings our group got our presentation organization completed as well as our powerpoint. We also finished the pamphlet for the presentation and found a great step-by-step instruction guide for Movie Maker online.

For this week's research I started looking into the possible programs that Knight Corporation could use in their company to better their communications among co-workers. I also wanted to figure out how such programs would alter the environment of the work place since management wants to keep the face to face aspect of their current set up still intact.

Here are some ideas for the improvement of communications among employees at knight corporation.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20010056466.html
this is architecture for communication system found on google scholar using the search "workplace enhancements"

http://orange.eserver.org/issues/5-1/pratt.html
this is an article about email overload in the workplace.

http://www.amanet.org/seminars/seminar.cfm?BaseSemNo=2545
this is an article about how to create a positive work environment.

Here are some ideas for the improvement of communications among employees at knight corporation.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20010056466.html
this is architecture for communication system found on google scholar using the search "workplace enhancements"

attached is my letter for the technology group