10/25-11/1 Progress Report

Expert Document

Overview

Clemson University’s (CU) football team is a crowd pleaser, selling out most if not all home games at Death Valley. The men’s basketball team suffers from less loyal student fans, having only sold out one game, in 1980, at Littlejohn Coliseum. The Clemson University Athletic Department would like to find ways to increase loyalty amongst the men’s basketball team’s student fans and consequently increase attendance at home games. For my expert document I will survey students, interview numerous members of the Athletic department, interview members of the basketball team, and reference both online and print sources to find solutions to the problem. I will, then, compile these solutions into a problem-solving report recommending (expert document) ways for the athletic department to reach its goals.

Work Completed

I reached my goal of collecting 50 surveys and I’ve begun analyzing the information I’ve gathered both from my survey and other sources. I’ve begun the process of deciding which means of displaying the information gathered is most commonly used and interpreted by my audience (i.e. bar graph vs. pie graphs). I’ve also completed drafts of my title page, transmittal letter, and executive summary. Additionally, I’ve added more resources to my working bibliography.

Next Steps

Next I plan to complete the other drafts for the other sections of my document. Additionally, I plan to begin brainstorming visuals that can be utilized for the presentation of my document.

Brief Conclusion

I’m making great progress and may actually finish my project ahead of time!!! Yay me!

Lay Document

Overview

Clemson University’s (CU) football team is a crowd pleaser, selling out most if not all home games at Death Valley. The men’s basketball team suffers from less loyal student fans, having only sold out one game, in 1980, at Littlejohn Coliseum. The Clemson University Athletic Department would like to find ways to increase loyalty amongst the men’s basketball team’s student fans and consequently increase attendance at home games. Employing information gathered from my expert document, I will create a lay document, a blog, for the men’s basketball team. This blog will foster an increased awareness of the players on campus, a relationship between the players and their fans and indubitably an increased sense of loyalty towards the team.

Work Completed

I settled on the “About Me Survey” for the basketball player’s profiles on the blog. These questions were distributed on Monday and will be collected at the beginning of next week. I made a folder in word for each member of the men’s basketball team. I’ve collected general information about each team member that I will display in the blogs along with their pictures.

Next Step

Next I will being to put together the blog. I would like to have each player profile completed with pictures and their answers to the “About Me Survey” by the end of next week.

Brief Conclusion

Things are going well and next week I’ll have something tangible to show for it!!!