Ch. 10 Response

• Initial impressions are important (show that you care and take project seriosly early on).
• Think carefully about words and the ethical issue that we had involving vocabulary usage.
• We need to discuss how we're going to present our project- with a written anouncement to readers about what we're presenting to them.
• The most important achievements to describe are the final products themselves. CLARIFY audiences, purposes, uses; note the positive effects the texts will have on the community.

Ch.9 Response

The evaluation report:

How the project went and what it produced. PERSUASIVE because we need to make a credible and compelling assessment, which will end with a final grade.

I guess that our weekly group evaluations will come into play in this report. The progress and process of our work is just as important as the final deliverable. Since our group inparticular has experienced exceptional team work and collaboration, we will make emphasize this in our report. Of course we will also asses our weaknesses and make an honest claim.

Ch. 7 Response

Executing Your Project

Our group has already gathered documents from our client. (We have their basic guide to the drip irrigation and information printed from the garden's website). The existence of these documents means that our project isn't starting from scratch; we have to synthesize and adapt the existing documents into something more effective.

What we need to keep in mind:

• Our discourse community. These are the people within our community who share a common interest/concern. Our discourse community is made up of those who are interested in garderning and those who are concerned about the environment; HOWEVER, those who aren't aware of environmental issues or things such as the green movement will also be targeted. It's important that our brochure reaches everyone because "healthy living" is sometimes seen as an "upper class" concern. The drip irrigation guide has a different audience- it is those who are physically involved with the garden.
• The brochure- Include organization's history within the brochure, avoid using info that's likely to become absolete in the near future (even though there's template).
• The drip irrigation guide- A design layout that avoids flipping back and fourth between between pages, use action oriented language, place safety info before the steps to which it relates, test with actual users!