Here I will give a review of good articles that I find during the week for my COM 358, specialized writing class.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Business story game plan

Here is my game plan for my business story. For some reason, every time I open up Word it freezes up and won't let me make any changes. Even when I tried converting it to a pdf, it all froze up. It is really strange because it's the only program that I'm having issues with, and I downloaded the 'security updates' that the error report said I needed. I even tried my laptop, and the same thing happened. So I made a new version of the file on the computer, and still the same thing. I was going to reword some things like primary audience (from farmer to livestock farmer; secondary audience- general energy consumer, home/ business owner). I'm not sure what to do now because I can't get to another computer. Please leave any comments- hope you don't have trouble opening it.

3 Comments:

Blogger temery said...

Looks Great Becki! Although I would be careful that the article is not to scientific and that it is 'farmer-friendly'.

I think it is great that you will talk with producers in Clinton County, where the project will be centered. But you could also talk with an ADM rep, since they are apart of the project.

Good Luck!

11:54 AM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

Though I've grown up in Indiana all my life, I know an extremely small amount about farming.

That being said, I was interested in your game plan and idea. I got lost at times, but that can easily be fixed by keeping jargon out of it, at least out of the lead.

Other than that, looks great.

1:32 PM

 
Blogger Jane's Journalism Blog said...

Becki,

Is there another side to this, an environmental concern? Make sure you aren't being too "woo-hoo" without investigating all sides. And as Phil said, keep the language fairly simple for us non-farm types. And another caution, make sure you let us know the exploratory (I assume) nature of this and that it's not ready for every farm in America yet :)

8:49 AM

 

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