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Includes a "Categories of Works" section discussion the types of works covered by copyright, such as literary works, musical and dramatic works, pantomimes and choreography, pictorial and graphic works, sculptures, films and other audiovisual works, sound recordings, and finally architectural works. Copyrighted works can fall into more than one category (a play is both a literary and dramatic work, for example) and the list is not exhaustive. A work that doesn't seem to fit into any of these categories could still be covered by copyright if it is "an original work of authorship." The chapter then covers each category in more detail. Literature, for example, is defined not just as novels and plays but also movie scripts, letters, email messages, blogs, computer programs, and even souvenir T-shirt messages. It also doesn't have to be tangible; a short story doesn't need to be published in physical format to be copyrighted.

This site simply list six steps to solve problems among a group. This is helpful for project 2 because we will be working in groups in which we may not all agree on every subject.

This site is good because list ten ways to improve a blog and gives each a description of how to do it.

This page goes into detail about designing for your audience. This articles focus is on marketing yourself but the principles could be applied to anything. It goes into a little more detail then the book does, it lists each step for designing for your target audience then follows with a short explanation.

This website gives very useful information that will aid students in writing beneficial and productive meeting minutes after group meetings for projects. There are listed do's and don'ts and also ten questions that should be answered by the meeting minutes in order to capture all of the important meeting details.

All three websites both describe rhetoric as a persuasive and effective form of speech. The use of rhetoric is when you want a favorable outcome in your favor. Through logos, pathos, and ethos rhetorical persuasion is possible. One website goes into more depth than the other two about what logos, pathos, and ethos is. Logos is the use of induction, pathos is creating an emotional link, and ethos is being viewed as trustworthy. This website explains how it is better to be open minded and create shared opinions, because then both sides can have something to agree on if they both have different views on the main topic. The Webster definition describes how this style of communication is ancient and dates back to the 14th century. Rhetoric can be performed with both speaking and writing persuasively. Free dictionary explains how rhetoric is more about the end result and not so much the process getting there.

Good tips on how to speed up load time for blog.

This site gives 14 plugins that can help make your blog better.

I like this article because it lists helpful plugins that will make your blogging experience much easier. 

A great list of ways to appropriately IM!

A gigantic list of over 300 tools, plugins, and applications to create the ultimate WordPress blog.

entertaining way to list important points about blog typography

A short article that provides some basic tips about how to write a formal report.

This is the best site that I found for formal reports, it gives you a great how to and explains everything about the formal report in great detail. This site could really help you write a good formal report. 

This website is a good resource because it provides a good basic idea on how to write a formal report.

This website discusses the format and purpose of a formal report. The different kinds of professionals that use this report need to know who the intended readers are.

This website contained a lot of information that just gave an overview on the basics of formal reports. It also explained how formal reports differ from an informal way of reporting information. It also split a formal report into 3 sections that I did not see in the other website I found. In this one it states that there is front matter, main text, and back matter. Each of these contains different sections within as well. Very helpful for when we have to work on Project #3!

I like this website because it gives you good explanation on different things you need in a good report. It talks about the front matter like front cover. tittle page, contents page and summary. Also about the main text like introduction, discussion, conlcusion. Back matter is also important with the appendices and glossary.

This is a comprehensive list of email etiquette, including many things I had not heard before or read in chapter 12...such as, ""Do not copy a message or attachment without permission" and "use active instead of passive" voice.

This article is coming from a business's perspective about why it is important to have employees follow good email etiquette. We had read about important reasons like professionalism and efficiency, but not so much about a company's liability for its employee's emails.

An article describing how to write effective e-mails in the workplace.

I think that this is a really good resource. It lists a lot valid arguments for not doing or doing certain things as far as the design of your page goes. They detail why certain design elements are bad choices and how to avoid them. The site also contains a lot of images and videos that are examples of "web pages that suck." The website is pretty humorous, too.

A list of 15 tips to promoting your blog in order to improve blog traffic and increase your blogging success. Simple yet effective.

C-Contrast- Album reviews are listed as cover icons while listings for different areas of the website are located in a toolbar along the top of the page. R- Repetition- Pitchfork decides to change up the hyperlink scheme to red but remains consistent with it throughout the entire site. A-Alignment- All text is aligned to the left hand side of the article. P- Proximity- Different article features are displayed in box-shaped areas that keep the type of article in the same location.

C-Contrast- Separates the different product listings on the left hand side with boxes in a teal shading. R- Repetition- All links listed on the webpage are consistent being blue and all descriptions and headings retain the same size respectively. A- Alignment- All product descriptions are aligned to the left hand side of the images. P- Proximity- Products similar to recent search queries are separated by a decent sized distance.

On this site, they list 39 tips in how to improve your blog and they also at the end of each tip, they will refer websites to check which is really above and beyond what I was expecting. This site has tips that they not be going along with what we're doing, but it's really simple to read and not boring as well. It's a well written tip site and if anyone is ever really going to hardcore blog, this is worth looking at.

Although this is foremost a retailer of products, Amazon sticks out to me as a successful model of the WWIC concept. Being able to read both customer and professional product reviews allows me to investigate a product's merits and deficincies with ease. I have joked with my wife that Amazon may know me better than anyone. The items Amazon recommends for me are often so closely aligned with my interests that I am impressed with their algorithms to determine my preferences. Occasionally this list of suggestion will contain an item of no interest to me, and I am able to simply click and delete it. Somehow Amazon manages to consult with me in a way I find highly effective.