Week 6

Week 6

By Monday, July 14, at midnight

• Read Instructor Blog #9. Post a comment below extending or complicating the ideas in the blog.
• Read Sample White Papers.
• Read "Why White Papers Don't Work" (attached).
• Read "The Steak Behind the Sizzle".
• The group should send the instructor a short email which includes the software under discussion (Google Docs unless your group determines otherwise) and the organization that the white paper will target.

By Tuesday, July 15, at midnight

• Continue working on research posts.

By Wednesday, July 16, at midnight

• Project 3: Research Posts Due! Each group member should post 3 source annotations to their group research wiki. The posts should explain and summarize the source, provide a link if possible, and most importantly, describe how it might benefit the project. Each annotation should be 150 words in length. Update - now due by Thursday, July 17 at noon due to site outages.

By Thursday July 17 at midnight

• Continue work on group project.

By Friday July 18 at midnight

• Reading Response Due. Based on the sample white papers and readings, write a short guide to writing a white paper. Include a definition of the genre and the kind of readers it entails.
• Don't forget to post comments to all your group member's reading responses. That is your commenting requirement for the remainder of the semester. Please post comments by Sunday at midnight.
• Don't forget to post a project log this week! Project logs must be posted as individual blogs and tagged in the Project Logs category. Please post project logs by Sunday at midnight.

Check out Week 7. No later than today, you should read through the course calendar for the following week. Make sure that you understand all of the assignments. If you have any questions, contact the instructor.

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