English 420, Business Writing

Attached is a copy of my cover letter I used for the sales team.

Our final week working on the project was pretty busy. We presented our solutions to the Board of Directors for Knight Corporation on Monday, and it went well. We all worked individually on a portion of the paper to revise and edit it after reading over the comments that were on our rough draft. We then met to combine our parts and do any final editing and revising that needed to be done. I feel confident in our work. We have worked really well together.

We had our white paper presentation last Monday. I feel we did a good job explaining our different ways of implementing new communication technologies into Knight Corporation. Our presentation had to be cut short because of time constraints so Robert wasn't able to finish his part of the presentation or show his video on social networking. The rest of the week, we watched other group presentations and attempted to get the group together to work on the final copy of the white paper.

Overall i think this project went very smooth and we did a great job as a group. I had no idea what a white paper project was when we first started and now Im actually writing one for a different class this semester.

This week, our group worked very hard on our white paper. At the start of this week, we meet in Grisom to work on getting everything organized. During this meeting, we were able to come up with our introduction as well as make changes to stuff we had previously written. The changes we made were to give more support to the ideas that we had presented throughout our draft. For example, I wrote about using cars.com. In the rough draft, I mentioned cars.com and posted a screenshot of their website. So, on Monday, I wrote supporting statements as to why cars.com was so important.

On Monday we had to present our final presentation. The presentation went very well but, we were unable to finish it as time ran out. We did not have any technological difficulties, but we could not show our video. Robert was discussing the advanced level of technologies and had to stop the video describing social networking. Also, since we were cut short Robert did not talk about our online sales option either.

Our group spent the past week finalizing our White Paper presentation and creating the paper itself. The presentation presented several challenges. When we opened up PowerPoint, for some reason the slides would blend together as you went throughout the show. This may have been because we used a background from PowerPoint 2007, even though we saved in a 2003 format. Fortunately, we made a handout which helped show changes we could make to the organizational structure.

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.

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.

We gave our White Paper presentation on Monday. Aside from forgetting to pass out the handouts and my typical nervousness it the presentation went smoothly. The review seemed to understand our options and we fielded their questions well.