A) Examining a white paper from a student: ITSM Please, watch the following video. The video takes you through some highlights of the CANRIGHT document. 1. The CANRIGHT document discusses various types of white papers on pages 10-11. As you examine the white paper on ITSM, what type of white paper would you argue that it is? 2. What is the problem that the white paper on ITSM is identifying? Please write one sentence in giving this answer. 3. What is the proposed solution? Please write one sentence in giving this answer. 4. Examine the graphics in this white paper. Do they enhance the message being delivered? Why or why not? You might choose one or two graphics as examples in supporting your answer. B) share your white paper topic and audience with your classmates You might review the sample student white paper, Cloud Considerations, as well as the second sample student white paper, ITSM. You also might review the Purdue OWL lecture on white papers that we saw in class earlier. 1. What company (real or fictitious) that you are an employee of 2. Which approach you are taking a white paper to an internal audience written to individuals within an organization you work for or are a part of. The white paper might inform them about a trend in the field and/or to solve a problem in the organization. a white paper to an external audience written to individuals in a particular industry or field of study, but not an organization you are a part of. The white paper could address a problem you are attempting to solve in the organization or to inform an external audience about a relevant trend. a white paper promoting a new product or service to potential customers. This is an example of a white paper to an external audience, but it features different rhetorical considerations than the typical white paper written to an external audience does. 3. What the problem is. 4. What previous approaches have been used? 5. What is the new trend that will solve them?
