Standard Assignments
- Memo (25%): Using a formal structure, compose a memo to outlining: 1) the expected tasks of your internship experience as you understand them and 2) your educational goals in the completion of that work (ie., how you hope to gain intellectually from your experience).
- Requirements: business memo format and style (short paragraphs, efficient and direct phrasing), Arial, 12p font, 1-1.5 pages; submitted to D2L; due in Week Four (Fri, Feb. 6, or re-negotiated date).
- Interview (25%): Compose a reflective interview of your internship supervisor or someone connected to your internship or field. We should come to agreement on the interview subject and the general questions at least one week before your interview. The interview trajectory should follow a specific skill you’re interested in developing during the internship or type of work within your intended field that you’ve not yet been exposed to.
- Requirements: reflective/professional format and style (can refer to yourself but should abide by journalistic writing standards); Arial, 12p font,1000-1500; submitted to D2L; due in Week Six (Fri, Feb. 20 or re-negotiated date)
- Annotated bibliography (25%): Citations and annotations for trade or academic media sources that describe a conflict or debate within your field that you can see evidence of within your internship work. It should begin with a paragraph or two of context explaining your topic and analysis or connections from your research.
- Requirements: academic format and style (MLA); introductory material 300-400 words; 10 sources in MLA citation format; 100-150 words per annotation (to include a summary, quote, and evaluation); due in Week Ten (Fri, Mar. 20 or re-negotiated date).
- Reflective portfolio (25%): An organized document wherein you evaluate and narrate your experience, apply learning from your other assignments, and reflect on lessons learned for future professional development. This assignment can be composed of a) six journal-like updates, each at least seven days apart from each other or b) one reflective essay submitted at the end of the semester. Talk to me if you would like me to set up a WordPress publishing space to experiment with when building this assignment.
- Requirements: reflective/professional format and style (can refer to yourself but should abide by journalistic writing standards); if journal entries, each should be between 150-200 words and submitted as entries in D2L — if submitted as an essay at the end of the semester, it should be 1500-2000 words and articulate 4-6 distinct observations/conclusions from your internship experience submitted in D2L; due in Week Sixteen (Mon, May 4, or re-negotiated date).
Alternate Assignments
You may choose one of the following alternate assignments to substitute for any of those above with the exception of the reflective portfolio (which is required). The submission date of these alternate assignments are flexible depending on the timing of the activity on which they are focused.
- Mock interview and reflection: Schedule a mock interview with Career Planning and Development, complete the preparation materials that they require, attend the mock interview, and debrief with them afterwards to collect their feedback. Compose a reflection on the experience
- Requirements: reflective/professional style (can refer to yourself but should abide by journalistics writing standards); 500 words; submitted to D2L in place of another assignment.
- Requirements: reflective/professional style (can refer to yourself but should abide by journalistics writing standards); 500 words; submitted to D2L in place of another assignment.
- Project management reflection: A review of one of a complicated project you completed for your internship with reflection on your use of project management software (Trello or a similar kanban board application). This assignment works best when you choose a collaborative project that involves the work of other people.
- Requirements: reflective/professional style (can refer to yourself but should abide by journalistics writing standards); 500 words; submitted to D2L in place of another assignment.
- Requirements: reflective/professional style (can refer to yourself but should abide by journalistics writing standards); 500 words; submitted to D2L in place of another assignment.
- Annotated work artifact: Choose an artifact that you composed/constructed for your internship experience and annotate it (textually, visually, orally) to articulate 1) the steps you went through to complete it and 2) how the artifact connects to scholarship related to your intended field.
- Requirements: submit both the work artifact and 500 words of annotations attached to specific components of the artifact.
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