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Mitchell Fratrik
Megan Keaton
ENC1102-01
17 July 2014
Progress Memo 1
Following our class in the library, I now have a total of 7 scholarly sources for use in my
paper. When we were in class searching for sources to use, I was able to find a multitude of
strong source on both reworks and on Google scholar. After I complied all of the sources, I went
back to them the next day and read through each one to pick out the most useful information. I
now have a few pages of notes with information from the sources that I have also used to decide
which specific genres to focus on. The most useful sources I found originated from Google
scholar. I narrowed down which sources would be best to use and have placed priority on them.
These sources are: (Pece, Gregory S. The PowerPoint society: the influence of PowerPoint in the
US Government and bureaucracy (2005)Print), (TOWNSEND, CLAUDIA, and BARBARA E.
KAHN. "The "Visual Preference Heuristic": The Influence of Visual Versus Verbal Depiction on
Assortment Processing, Perceived Variety, and Choice Overload." Journal of Consumer
Research 40.5 (2014): 993-1015. Print), (Yates, JoAnne, and Wanda Orlikowski. "The
PowerPoint Presentation and its Corollaries: How Genres Shape Communicative Action in
Organizations." Communicative practices in workplaces and the professions: Cultural
perspectives on the regulation of discourse and organizations (2007): 67-91. Print), and (Koegel,
Timothy J. The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up! and Own the Room.
Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2007. Print.)
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After identifying the sources, I also looked at the author of each one. Based on each
authors history, all of the sources are credible because each of them has written multiple works
on similar topics. After I established the credibility of the sources, I compiled pages of notes with
all of the new knowledge that I could include in the essay to support my main focus. Now that I
have this set of notes, the next step I am taking is to break down each quote into a more useful
form that doesnt include the extra fluff that the author may have put in their work. After I break
them down, I can begin to match information with each point I am going to make and start
actually writing the paper.