Final Thoughts

I have learned a lot in this class, more than I actually thought I would. So my advice to the incoming classes would be as follows:
~DO YOUR BLOGS! they take little to no time to complete and if you don't do them they could hurt you real bad in the then
~PAY ATTENTION when it comes time for the resume and cover letter parts! that lesson helped me get a job... pretty impressive.
~HAVE FUN with the proposal! get creative with it, its one of the only times in school that you will be doing something that may actually help people and you have the chance to be as creative as you want with it.

Its not much, but that's what I think will make you class expeirence better and more productive.



ps. sorry its late angie. :(

looking for ethical breaches...

I found that trying to find dehumanizing language about a ethical lapses was a lot harder than one would think. We first tried to find documentation on the Japanese internment camps during WWII but none of the memos we found were dehumanizing. They were straight forward about what they were doing. Then we looked up cloning and found nothing helpful at all about that... guess the jury is still out on that being ethical or not. FInally we settled on finding things that Milosevic said or wrote during his genocide reign on Serbia. But all we could find is info on his trials, and nothing conclusive on that either.

So i think it's almost imposible to find this stuff... unless you have a key for some secret file that only special people get to look in. I'm sitll looking thou, so here's hope.

Ethics in the work place

It's no surprise to me that there are many examples of poor ethics in the work place. Too often is the road to a bigger paycheck taken in spite of who it hurts, esp in todays office. But what did surprise me is that only a third of those envolved in ethical lapses were actually distracted by them. With all the political and even grass roots talk of helping the little guy out and doing the thing thats right for everyone, I'm a little shocked that there isn't more guilt about not following through on the big talk. But it makes perfect sense that once ethical lapses occur, office relationships are strained. People talk too, it's hard for someone who has done something unethical to keep it to themselves, it has something to do with the guilt of it all. The article mentioned that 46% of ppl admitted to telling someone else, which only increases that office strain. My one thought though is why can't ppl just do what's right?!?! I hope that once I'm in the real world that I can always just say no to ethical lapses.

Screen vs Paper

I think the most important thing to remember when writing for a website is brevity. You have to consider who you are writing for and that they are probably looking on the web for quick information. You need to get to the point with in a small paragraph. It's also important to have well explained links that visitors can navigate easily and quickly.
If you are writing for somehting going into print, you can be a little more liberal with the length. You can get in to more background before making your main points. People who pick up a publication are most likely in it for the long run, but just to make sure it is often good to have an abstract that those doing research can scan to get a good idea if they should stay tuned or not.
When you are uploading a published document on to a website, that abstract becomes even more important. It will also help if subtitles are created if they are not already there. Again anything that makes a long document easier to navigate on a website is better.