Reading
Here are three example white papers. The last one is almost 100 pages long, so don't feel like you have to read through every page. Rather, look over these examples and try to get a sense of what the white paper is. Many students enter this class with no idea what a white paper is, so that is a question you'll be trying to answer with your team as you push forward. Like all of the other documents we work on in this class, white papers can be very different depending on who they're for, who they're authored by, and what their purpose is (for instance, the Motorola report is only 7 pages long, not counting the front and back covers).
While you look at these, pay attention to a few things. The use of summary in these reports is very important, as is the use of visual elements like color and images. There is no reading response today, but try to figure out what all these reports have in common, and how they differ.
Also, if you were wondering, the Motorola White Paper is probably the closest example of the kind of white paper you'll be producing, but every team's will be different.
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