English 420Y - Business Writing Online

I guess it is normal to feel that, since it was the last week, there was more pressure than the others. It is a relief though, to se that everything was done successfully and that we delivered as a group with all the steps requested. Since Monday we have been on the final draft that was due on Wednesday. Libby had an inconvenience so I helped by doing all the changes that the Humane Society requested on our Pet Care brochure. The comments were minor since apparently the organization liked our draft.

This week has been really productive. The second draft was due on Tuesday but I thought it was due on Monday. Thank God I got confused to a day before and not after. It actually turned out to be a positive confusion since I finished the second draft on Monday with the help of Libby. When we got the feedback on draft number one I immediately wrote an email to all of my peers and coordinated with Libby to work on the pet care brochure that was the one we had been working on since the beginning of the project.

The article was very helpful to realize what to notice when evaluating efficiency of a brochure. It was actually an indirect support of what I’ve been doing when commenting in my peer’s work. The first thing I evaluate is how professional they are. I think that is very important since it will give the idea of the organization. If they have a professional brochure that means they are very professional, if not I wouldn’t like to get involved with them. That is a very drastic decision that an organization should be afraid of. Secondly, the part of being personal also interests me a lot.

This week was much more active than week number 5. Since we had to send our first draft I began working on it on Monday. My support for the group was the design and some of the information needed for the pet care brochure. In those tasks I worked very close to Libby who revised and added most of the information. The design started as a template in word, which I changed and adapted to the information we wanted to add.

Chapter 37 was the most helpful guide I’ve read in this class. I have notice that my problems almost always rely in attractive writing. First of all the entire variety principle seems completely new for me, and learning it has been a very positive fact for this project. In this first draft I wasn’t able to apply this information since I read the chapter today but for the second draft I will apply principles such as variety with types of sentences, word order and place of important information.

I can tell from what has been going on this week that this is going to be quite an experience. It's really obvious that my group will have a lot of difficulties since 2 of my group members are working full time and the other two are in South America. We have been trying all week to communicate in an effective way but it’s been hard. For the Gantt chart that we have to submit today, it has been really hard to do together, but I am sure that organization will improve after this.

Here is my final project.

Thanks,

Cristina

Thanks for any comments!

The conditions costumers had to go through in the JetBlue crisis were appalling. The video shown in yotube shows how, even inside the airport, things were uncomfortable for everyone. I can say from experience that every time I travel, deep inside I fear that will happen. As I learned with chapter 1, we must be sure that we know the audience in order to give the information in the right context. In order to communicate properly we must understand what the other party has been through and then come up with the position they want us to assume.

I know I need a lot of advise!! I'm open to all of them!!

Thanks,

Cristina