Blog #13--Blog to my to my group members

This blog post will be a preview of my progress report, of sorts. I am going to highlight some key points in what I have done in my research report and what I have planned for what to do next.

Firstly, our project is a research for a company that wants to “go green” and become more environment friendly. Each of us is doing a certain area of research and then we will put it all together in a cohesive report. My area or research is energy saving. Originally, we started with just converting regular light bulbs to florescent ones, but we decided to expand it to energy saving so that we have more to say.

So far, I have done some research on prices of florescent light bulbs at Target, and regular Soft White light bulbs at Meijer. I also compared the energy used for each light bulb to the energy equivalent output, or basically how much light the bulb gives off.

I plan on doing some more research by looking at other companies and what they do to conserve energy. I am also thinking about interviewing a representative from a company, but that is just a possibility at this point.

Blog #12 -- Final Portfolio Revision Plans

I have some plans for the final revisions on my final portfolio. For starters, my blog analyses could use some reworking. The first two are good. I like my fourth one as well. The third and fifth ones have the most problems. For example, there seems to be a pattern in my blog analyses that I need to fix. I need to change the formula I have been using. I always start with an introduction, but it is always of individual blogs instead of reviewing the blog as a whole. Then I go into each blog post in the body of the analysis. I analyze each post by doing the normal routine of looking at the language, imagery, text, etc. I should analyze the blog as a whole, so I will probably go back and redo the third and fifth blog analyses to be more about the whole blogs rather than individual posts.

I will also probably do some tweaking on my other reports, like the feasibility report and the trip report.

Blog #11 -- Open Blog: Trip Reports

We are doing another open blog this week. I never know what to write about in these. I feel that writing about my life is probably too informal for a class. Although the things in my life give me topics to write about, I do not think I should do that for every open blog. So I thought I would talk about the trip reports that we did this week. My report was a continuation from my feasibility report. I’m using the Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control again, but for a different reason. This time I am writing like I am going to an off-site adoption event for the first time and my supervisor wants me to write a report about it to see how I take to it. In my feasibility report, I wrote about an issue with not having enough space for the amount of bunnies that come to the shelter. I am glad that our professor nudged me in that direction because I can use my experience and knowledge of the way things go in the shelter for the reports.