Introduction and Conclusions/Recommendations’ Posting

                 In order to maintain the aptness of the feasibility report, it is critical to connect the introduction and the conclusion. Some of the main points in an introduction includes stating the issue that the project is addressing, outlines major alternatives, summarizing the research to justify the alternatives, and stating the conclusion. Similarly, there are tactics to create an effective conclusion/recommendation. It would be better if the conclusion and recommendation were broken down into separate paragraphs instead of combining them into one. Conclusion creates a brief summary of the entire feasibility report. It draws details from the research that we have done and information from the evaluations sections. For the recommendation section, we are suggesting what needs to be done next, or the actions that the reader has to do. It is better to make a recommendation for each alternative that we provided. For example, taking my team's feasibility report into consideration, for the introduction we stated the possible alternatives (android application, web application, web app with text alert), in conclusion we stated the results of each evaluation and why it would be better to use an alternative over the other. In the recommendation section we suggested that it would be reasonable to make the android application.

Blog Posting #8: Beginning and Ending a Document

Part 1:
    In Sample 1, the team motivates the reader to pay attention to the Introduction by stating the problems that they are addressing and by providing the outline of their alternatives. The guideline widely used by this team is "Offer to help your readers solve a problem." This strategy has allowed the team to highlight the issue that the client is confronting and offers them help to solve it. The Introduction has also included some of the investigations/researches that they have conducted that helped in solving the problem. The team has included a summary of the entire method. Even though the main points are spread within the entire Introduction section, since its brief, it is easy to find. In order to improve this section, I would suggest stating the main point up front. In sample 2, the team follows the same guideline same sample 1. It offers to help the readers solve a problem. This sample includes a summary and states the main point in a precise manner. Both of the teams has established their credibility by displaying some sort of research method. Both teams has picked the appropriate length for their introduction. Both covered the main point, the problem they are solving, how they are going to solve it, and background information a reader needs in order to understand the document.

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   The main purpose of conclusion is to help readers recall the critical points throughout the document. Some the guidelines both the samples have followed are after making the last point, they have stopped, they have repeated the main points and summarized the key points, refers back to the goal stated earlier in the introduction section. Both samples have concluded their document in a concise way without rambling on. Since conclusion is the ending and a point of emphasis, it is suggested to include points that will stay in the readers' mind. Therefore, it is critical to include the main point, goals, and the key points. They have included the key points so that the readers would understand the gist and the importance of the entire document. Both teams have referred back to their goal, which can remind the reader the purpose and sharpen the focus of the communication. In order to improve, both teams could have told the readers what to do next. They could identify the next steps that the reader should take such as any other studies they would have to conduct. A conclusion that tells the reader what exactly to do and one that identifies next question needing study will engage the readers in a way that it could stay in their mind.

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For the primary audience, the Introduction should succinctly state the problem that we are addressing, include the outline of the alternatives. For the clients, since they may be unfamiliar with technical terms, it is important to use terms that they could understand or explain certain technical terms in the communication. Also, the clients might not be familiar with the situation that we are discussing in the introduction.

Methods and Evaluation’ Posting

The research methods that my team used are :

The website  http://www.productchart.com to determine whether a particular device would have sufficient space to display all of the necessary information.

The Chromium blog, (http://blog.chromium.org), The Mac Developer Library, (https://developer.apple.com), and developers’ comments at Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com) to research the type of notification

Research and collect information from Google API, Google Maps API, Date and Time API, and Java APIs.

Researched user accessibility using a survey

Collect information from a  research paper: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:830050/FULLTEXT01.pdf

In addition to these methods, we could have conducted interviews with professionals and fellow students to get more information.

Blog Posting #7. Feasibility Reports

Part 1:
             Chapter 6 focuses on the reader centered approach to conduct research. The chapter begins by introducing how to define reader centered goals for research. Some of the guidelines to follow are to identifying information that the reader will fund useful and persuasive and identifying the criteria by which readers will evaluate the standard of the research we conducted. It is important that the results of the reader centered research should be thoroughly analyzed, extracted from credible sources, gathered from unbiased sources,and complete. In order to gather information that the user/reader needs, we should identify complete range of sources and methods available, use credible and unbiased secondary sources, identify subgroups and collect information that can be analyzed by them. For the research that we will be conducting, we should also follow these conventions. It is also critical to review the research objectives and arrange the information in an analyzable and meaningful form. The author also provides some guidelines on thinking critically though out the research process to analyze the gathered information. Some ways to do that is by avoiding personal biases, valuing counter evidences and carefully considering the sources that we have picked. The chapter ends by giving some ethical guidelines for documenting sources to credit the sources of our idea by including references, bibliography, citations, or foot notes.

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    Sample 2: 

1. Conducted test and tallied the maximum number of data-fed visuals allowed on the screen. 
2. Conducted interviews with experts
3. Conducted interview with team's artist
4. Conducted interview with Preme's personnel
5. Web research

     In addition to these methods, the team could have predicted the estimate time of completion based      on prior experiences on development time.
    Sample 3: 

1. Internet research
2. Brainstorming
3. Researched various natural language processing libraries
4. Looked into into open source technology to cut cost
5. Researched the Twitter API limits

    In addition to these methods, the team could have interviews the expert and asked for their recommendations on the model and the libraries. 

Part 3: 
          The first example, some of the ideas were redundant while evaluating. Even though there was redundancy, there was also a lack of information at the same time. This sample has a table that is not very effective because it was very vague. The second example follows the table based format for the evaluation. This is used to effectively show how the alternative solutions is linked to their criteria. This evaluations seems to be more reliable and persuasive because it examines the alternatives separately. The table in sample 2 makes it visually easier for the reader to get a quick summary of the actual data.

FR Alternatives and Criteria Table Posting

Criteria	Android Application	Mobile Web Application	Web Application with Text alert
Accessibility	findings	findings	findings
Portability to multiple devices	findings	findings	findings
Budget	findings	findings	findings
Ease of use	findings	findings	findings
Familiarity with technology	findings	findings	findings
Estimated time and effort for completion	findings	findings	findings
Available libraries	findings	findings	findings