ENGL 420: Business Writing - Project Log http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/taxonomy/term/3/0 en RPG Group Project 3 Week 7 Entry http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/587 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This past week has been hectic. We met Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to practice our presentation and finish up our deliverables.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also got the paper bound by Boiler Copymat and had to do the second run of handouts. <span>&nbsp;</span>I also did this week&rsquo;s write-ups as well.&nbsp; I spent approximately 3.5 hours working on the slides, handouts and rehearsing.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also spent another hour and a half at Boiler Copymat getting the presentation bound.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also spent forty-five minutes fixing the handout and another forty-five minutes working on the write-ups.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/587#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:40:47 +0000 vogel 587 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 11 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/586 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 11, 2008 7:00 &ndash; 8:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to practice the PowerPoint presentation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We practiced the PowerPoint and got down when we would transition slides and transition from person to person.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also discussed possible questions that people may ask us and made sure we agreed on our answers, so we could better answer our audience.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Friday December 12, 2008 from at 4:30pm to present our PowerPoint presentation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/586#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:29:48 +0000 vogel 586 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 10 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/585 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 10, 2008 4:30 &ndash; 5:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to turn in the deliverables.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We turned in the PowerPoint electronically with the recommendation report, as well as a bound hardcopy of the report.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also talked to Dr. Kerns about our handouts and she said we needed to reprint them, so Jim took on that responsibility.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Thursday December 11, 2008 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm to practice the presentation one more time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/585#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:26:27 +0000 vogel 585 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 9 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/584 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 8, 2008 5:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to finish up the PowerPoint slides, handout, and practice our presentation.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We finished up the PowerPoint and finished designing the handouts.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also delegated who was going to get the report printed and bound, and who was going to get the handouts printed.<span>&nbsp; </span>Jim volunteered to get the paper bound and Aswin said that he would get the handouts printed.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Wednesday December 10, 2008 during class to turn in the PowerPoint, paper, and handouts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/584#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:21:24 +0000 vogel 584 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Week 5-6 Entry http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/583 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">These past weeks we worked on finishing the recommendation paper and starting on the PowerPoint presentation.&nbsp; I attended the meetings and helped comingle the rough draft.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also did this week&rsquo;s and last week&rsquo;s write-ups as well.&nbsp; I spent approximately 5 hours working on the draft and the slides, and another forty-five minutes working on the write-ups.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/583#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:13:47 +0000 vogel 583 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 8 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/582 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 5, 2008 5:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to work through our peer edit and make revisions to finalize the paper, and work on the PowerPoint slides.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We looked through the paper making revisions.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also worked on the PowerPoint presentation but did not get it finished.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Friday December 8, 2008 after class to finish up the PowerPoint and practice the slides. </span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/582#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:08:34 +0000 vogel 582 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 7 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/581 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 1, 2008 4:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to finish up our rough draft that was due on Wednesday.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We again looked through each other&rsquo;s revised parts and meshed the parts together.<span>&nbsp; </span>We finished up the rough draft and began working on the PowerPoint presentation.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Friday December 5, 2008 after class to look over the critique of our draft.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/581#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:03:03 +0000 vogel 581 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 6 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/580 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">November 24, 2008 4:30 &ndash; 6:00pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to read through each other&rsquo;s sections that we had previously written and start to mesh them together.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We looked through each other&rsquo;s parts and began to mesh the parts together.<span>&nbsp; </span>Andrew&rsquo;s part and my part clashed so I had to rework mine.<span>&nbsp; </span>We discussed the issue we were both trying to explain and also talked out other issues that we were not all clear on. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Monday December 1, 2008 during the class off to finish pulling together our paper.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/580#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:58:01 +0000 vogel 580 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Week 4 Entry http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/579 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This week we again worked on researching information in order to help come up with estimates for the recommendation paper.&nbsp; I attended the meeting and helped find the financial statistics that we needed for the presentation.&nbsp; I also did this week&rsquo;s write-ups as well.&nbsp; I spent approximately 3 hours researching information and another fifteen minutes working on the write-up.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/579#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:46:58 +0000 vogel 579 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 Project 3 progress http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/576 <p>This week we have had three meeting to get this project three together. we meet on tuesday night. Everyone was suppose to have their parts done., so we could out it together. Everyone did, we just had to fix a couple of things. Wednesday we meet before class at 1:30 to make sure everything flowed togehter. Inder and i went to go bind everything together. We turned in our report Wednesday in class. Today is Friday and we are meeting again to go over the preseantation one last time, but i belive we are going to do a good job.</p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/576#comments Project Log Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:31:32 +0000 lwashing86 576 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1