This week I took a (personally) bold step and actually called up one of the companies that our group is writing about to get up to date info and ask for some clarification. I was fed up with the ambiguity of our solution- we have a solid argument, but pieces were missing from it and I felt like the actual company would know the correct answer. I first emailed them, explained a bit about the Rec Paper, and asked if I could interview someone who is familiar with our topic. Within days I had contact information for the Business Development person at the company and spoke to him a couple days ago. I prepared a list of about 10 questions about their product and I learned a lot from him. I'm glad I made a list of questions because it's inevitable that I would have forgotten something.

I will begin to compose my portion of the paper soon, and I'm relieved that our group will have solid information. After doing a bit more research to get some outside info apart from the company I think we will have a legitimate argument. The only thing I'm waiting to see now is how many words we end up writing... this word minimum seems harder to fill at this point than the white paper, but we shall see.