Collaborative Writing Process & Design and Graphics

Often, large or complex writing projects are done collaboratively. Collaborative writing projects require input from several different people and often produce a final product with more ideas and insights than if done by just one person. Imagine that the Final Project that you are writing for this course is a real-life project that you are completing on-the-job. Although you are ultimately responsible for the Final Project, your supervisor has required you to work collaboratively with four to five other coworkers. How will you organize the project and delegate tasks? How will you make best use of the team’s strengths? What are some of the potential problems/challenges that might arise, and what will you do to prevent them? To add, good document design includes effective use of white space and colors. Graphics are often used to provide a snapshot of a large amount of data or to illustrate a topic. Poorly-designed pages can take away from the intended message of the document. Choose and attach a graphic, chart, or image that you feel will help your Final Project. Explain why it is useful and what it means in the context of your Final Project. Be sure to reference relevant material. In your responses to classmates, critique the graphics that your peers submit, and make suggestions for other ways the information could be presented or suggest alternative graphics. Defend your suggestions. The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment. Your initial post should be at least 500 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other credible resources, and properly cite any references.