Paper
Due: July 25
Notes:
Here's a link to the Proposal
assignment.
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Welcome to the summer internship course in technical communication.
This is the course that helps you apply your academic learning to real workplace
situations.
More about the internship at this location:
Link.
How the course works
- Attend orientation meetings You prepare by starting in
spring. Prospective students will meet twice for orientation meetings.
These meetings will focus on 1) finding internships and 2) academic and
technological preparation
- Obtain an internship position You will be responsible for
obtaining a paid or volunteer job locally or in another city. Our
Resources page will help you find an internship.
- Fill out Application Form This form will be reviewed by the
instructor and signed.
- Register for the course You register in April for second
summer session. This way you have most of the summer to do your academic
work and internship work.
- Class correspondence You do not attend an onsite class for
this course. Instead, you correspond with me via email and you post
your assignments the pbwiki
site.
- Prepare assignments Assignments are: bi-weekly progress
reports, a 10-page (d/s) paper, a portfolio. The paper assignment includes a
bibliography and a proposal. I review these to make sure you're on
track.
Outcomes and Assessments
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Understand the skills
responsibilities of a practicing technical communicator.
Assessment: Find and
keep a suitable internship position in technical communication.
Assessment: Create and
maintain a portfolio that represents the work of a technical communicator.
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Learn how to identify
communication components of workplace problems.
Assessment: Assemble a
bibliography of sources pertinent to a workplace communication problem.
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Understand how to apply
principles of technical communication to workplace communication problems.
Assessment: Explain in
a written report how a professional problem was solved by principles of
technical communication.
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