Posted by: dibennett on: November 20, 2008
On November 20th, 5 days before the group presentation and proposal report due date, we had to hand in a rough draft and yes, more progress memos.
Here’s the goal described on Dr. Fricke’s website:
Show that your group is making useful progress on the formal group proposal report project. Get useful help and advice if your group needs it. Understand whether your group is ahead, behind, or right on schedule and use this information to save everyone time and effort in the long run. If your project is going well, this assignment is an opportunity to get help from Dr. Art to help you save more time and effort while still producing a fantastic final proposal report. If your project is not going well, then this assignment is an opportunity to get help from Dr. Art to fix specific issues or general project challenges before they sink the overall proposal writing effort.
Dr. Fricke told us he wouldn’t be grading us on our rough draft, he just wanted us to be working on it and have something to hand in. We were all rushing to get things done for other classes so we completed about half of the rough draft to take in for editing. I went to Dr. Fricke’s office on Monday (yeah Dad, his OFFICE) to talk about editing. There wasn’t much to edit, but he looked it over and mostly helped us with our memos. He told me that we should probably come up with one template to use with our memos so they would be easier for him to scan and look at. I also talked to him about this blog and some goals with it. At first I was going to cater to a group of students that would be taking technical writing as my audience, but a few weeks ago I changed my mind. I thought that writing to my family would be way more fun and it would give the blog a more relaxed feeling and I could feel free to speak normally and casually!
So basically Dr. Fricke gave me a few pointers on my weblog and looked over our memos.
I went home and edited our memos for all the grammar and heading issues that Dr. Fricke pointed out to me. Then the next day in class we sat down and I told them everything he had said. We kept working on our rough draft but it was just pieces at a time. I think when we handed it in it was only about 6 pages. The end result was 15 pages.
Oh yeah, Dad, I forgot to say that we went in 4 days early for editing! That way, we could talk and revise in class and then hand it in on that Thursday. I don’t remember what we got on this assignment, but I’m sure it was an A or a B. Hopefully an A.
Ok so below is our cover memo, rough draft, and our individual progress memos. Hey, you can never have too many memos, can you??
