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This final week our group was able to pull everything together. I was responsible for putting all finishing touches on our brochure. I changed everything suggested by Ed and a number of things suggested by our peers. I also spent a lot of time trying to make sure I implemented everything suggested by our client. The hardest thing I had to do was find a better and more fitting font for our cover page. I experimented with a number of fonts before I finally picked one. The other nearly as difficult task was selecting a few new graphics for the brochure to show more of what Tantalus does.

Attached is Group 3's final draft of the company brochure as well as a flyer for both the Minnesota Fringe Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival.

This week my group and I finished our second draft of the servicing learning project. I was responsible for implementing the ideas of my fellow group members and our instructor. I played with the fonts for the body of the brochure. I changed the layout of the Donations section and I used the program paint to edit the heading from the Tantalus Theatre Group's website to make it work for the Story of Tantalus section. I also spent a significant amount of time editing the text from the Story of Tantalus section.

Appeal to Emotions: I gave our brochure a + for this section. I think our pictures appeal to emotion. However, I think the writing on the font and the picture for donations could do a better job appealing to emotions if changed.

Be Professional: I gave our brochure a + for this section. I also think it is our strongest aspect. The entire brochure is very clear cut and professional looking.

Be Personal: I gave our brochure a + for this section. Our brochure is very personal, beginning with cover page by asking our readers to enter.

This week has been a very productive one for my group. I personally contributed in a number of ways. The first way I contributed was by catching up the fourth member of my group, Roxy. She had been out of town and the two of us talked online to ensure that she was up to speed. I also rearranged some of the tasks, so that the work was more evenly distributed. Throughout the week I sent a number of emails to my group making sure we were all on schedule and all on the same page. The largest task I completed this week, however, was the assembly of our brochure.

I never realized how much rhetoric could go into the production of a brochure and flyer. However, once you start to think that ever color, every font, every size, every picture, and every word have an impact on your reader your publications can truly come to life. Ryan is the member of our group who volunteered to select graphics for our publications, and I was very impressed by the picture he chose for vision, it is picture of one of the characters reaching out towards the camera. There could not be a better fit picture. I was most surprised with how the picture affected me.

Attached is the first draft of Group #3's service learning project. It is in pdf form.

This week our group got off to a great start. I have been communicating frequently with two of the members of my group, and I sent an e-mail to our third member. I proposed an idea of how to accomplish our work, and I broke down what I thought needed to be done so that we could get started on our Gantt Chart. This has allowed our group to further define and assign responsibilities.

The brochure I found can be viewed by following this link. http://www.womendeservebetter.com/cop/kits/yhc.pdf

Attached is the final draft of my corporate project in PDF form. It includes my Press Release, Business Letter, and JetBlue Text Analysis.