3/26 Blog

There are many things that I learned from this assignment. The first thing that I learned was what a white paper was. Not only had I never written one before, I had never even heard of a white paper. I’m sure that I had seen a white paper before and I didn’t realize that it was a white paper. I had no idea how to write a white paper and what classifies a paper as a white paper. Before researching a topic for my own white paper, I researched what a white paper was. This was not to hard to figure out due to the fact that white papers are pretty straight forward. Their job is to be informative and they can be designed how ever the creator would like them to be. Even though the creator has that freedom, they should still try and design their white paper so that it catches the eye’s of the readers. After figuring out what a white paper is and how to write one, I had to pick my topic. I decided to go with writing practice in mechanical engineering because I am currently studying to become a mechanical engineer. One thing that I learned from my research was just how much writing engineering have to do. I knew that there was writing involved, but I had no idea how much there actually was. I almost made me want to change my major. But, as I kept doing research, I found out that this writing is not like writing essays or research paper. It is mostly writing about something that has been build. Mechanical engineers write about how their product works, how it has to be operated, what has to be done to make sure that an operator of the project does not break it, and many other things. I am excited to start doing writing like that in the near future.