Document Development Exposition: White Paper

Explain in detail your document’s development from planning to finish, describing your
challenges, how you overcame them, and what you learned.

Planning
The planning process for this assignment was by far the most time indulging for me. Luckily, the
sample paper provided by the professor helped me out the most. Making the cover page of the
document was different and I had never made one like this before. After finding images that went
with my overall topic, and learning how to properly insert text boxes, my cover page was complete.
Finding a “Table of Contents” graphic was pretty simple on Word’s software; I added my headings
and subheadings under the Table of Contents/Figures and inserted their correct numbers. Everything
else in the White Paper planning process was pretty simple. I had come up with a problem and a
solution.

First Draft (for peer editing)

For my first draft, I made a rough copy of what I hoped to finalize. I did not focus too much on the
overall look of the assignment, rather the information at hand. Finding a ton of scholarly sources
took hours to complete. Having to properly cite their works and insert them into my document was
different, but I enjoyed learning the process. I put in a few figures to help with the problem and
added more to go hand-in-hand with my solution argument. My conclusion simply summed up what
I had written about.

Second Draft (for your packet)

I did not receive a ton of feedback in peer reviews for this assignment. Many students commented
on the outline of the document and how it was organized, they liked the figures chosen, and thought
that the target audience, problem, and solution were all identified properly. After the feedback I
received, the only change I made was adding a green border around each page for color continuity.

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

The main takeaways I got from my second draft comments were as follows, remove boxed in text
headings (specifically on the cover page and under figures), add more descriptions in my abstract
about what I was going to write about, and go in-depth about my solution (boats designed to collect
ocean waste). There were not a ton of revision comments for my second draft, so I applied those
basic ones into my final draft and submitted it!