Progress Report 11/8-11/15

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’ve continued to amend the working draft for my expert document. I’ve also spent this week working on making my document more aesthetically pleasing. I’ve accomplished this task primarily through use of color and the overall layout.

Next Steps

Next on my to do list is to finalize what I want to do as far as visual aids for my presentation go. Second on my to do list is to continue revising my document draft and visuals for my project.

Brief Conclusion

I’m really excited to get feedback on my document draft and look forward to implementing whatever suggestions are made.

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 haven’t spent much time on my lay document this week. I did, however, request that the players send me some fun candid shots but have yet to receive any. They’ve been really busy with their season opener and all.

Next Step

Next, I need to set up a time that I can meet with the players and have them approve the information that will be in their profiles. I want to make sure that I have a thumbs up from every player prior to posting the information on the web. Hopefully I can get those candid photos I mentioned at our meeting.

Brief Conclusion

Now that I’m pretty much finished with my expert document, I look forward to spending a lot more time on my lay document.