English 420: Business Writing Online

Hello all! As the semester wraps up I am looking through the reading responses and other assignments, which will be posted to your Blackboard before final grades are due (May 12th). The final grades will NOT be posted on Blackboard, but instead posted using My Purdue's interface, and you will have access to them there. Remember that to see your grades on Blackboard you often need to click "Show more" on the main page so you can see the 420Y course.

Turn in procedures for the final projects are as follows:
White Paper Projects
Post a blog entry with the final draft of the paper, presentation, and handout. Post individual project assessment documents to individual blogs.
Distance Learning Projects
Post your final paper and links to all of your interaction posts to your individual blog.

I just want to apologize profusely for the fact that you guys haven't gotten your Employment Project grades before now. I've never used Blackboard before this semester, and I had to fight with it multiple times before I got a grade form that was even close to the one I use to grade. So, you should be able to now see your employment project grades on blackboard--please let me know if you can't, and I'll try to fix it. For anyone who got less than an A on this assignment, you are allowed to revise it by resubmitting the documents by the end of finals week (Friday, May 8th).

Sorry guys! I thought I'd linked these presentations, but apparently I hadn't. Here's the link to the powerpoint presentations on Purdue's OWL that you can consider to be good models of presentations of the same type that you want to make yourselves: Click me here
 

Hello, all! I've attached the peer review instructions to the Week 14 calendar (you must be logged in to see it). Please work on these as a group--you might decide to upload the document to your online collaborative software and assign different sections to different people. You'll need to then attach the completed peer review in a comment to the original draft post.

Hello all! I think I've conquered blackboard and all of your grades, up until the employment project, which I haven't gotten to post yet. Please let me know if for some reason you can't see your grades, or if you think a grade is incorrect.

The calendar has been updated through the end of the semester. Please make sure to review what is due and when. In contrast to the first half of the semester, I've changed the due dates to be weekly instead of biweekly, but I have also loaded some of the weeks pretty heavily. There is also still some links to be added for sample white papers and sample online presentations, but I wanted to get the calendar posted first so you can see what our schedule will be for the rest of the semester. Any questions or concerns, please email or comment to this post!

Some of you expressed a desire to change software to something other than what you posted about. That's perfectly fine! No one is locked into the software selection until the group submits the memo, at which point you are locked in for the rest of the project. Feel free to attempt to convince your other group members to switch to a different software than googledocs.

I hope everyone enjoyed their spring break, whether you travelled or not. I've looked over the group negotiation emails and after evaluating preferences (or lack thereof) I've decided on the following groups:
 
kedewees, hlandmei, smcavana, dgerszte
lewalsh, cdietric, arsapp
Smathavi, cleddy, klwolf, annap
Ablaugh, hollyb, JulieD86
sureynol trxswim kehardy
Theswazz, shevalse, jenaveir
 
 

For your white paper project you will be working for several weeks with a collaborative software. The options for this project vary in availability, options, and price (i.e. some are free and some aren't). It's up to you to weigh the options and then select one of the following list: