Practicums
Practicum
A practicum is a situation in which you
receive credit for performing a communication task for another person or
company. Usually Practicums are unpaid positions.
Students typically set them up in offices or companies that they work in or as
an independent project for a person or company as arranged either by the
Director of Practicum or by the student. Usually each practicum credit requires
75 hours, including planning, research, writing,
revising, and producing the final document.
The prerequisite for a practicum is ENGL 415
Technical Writing
1. List your learning goals for the practicum
2. Name the audience for the ‘deliverable”, and tell your
goal for the audience,
3. What are the basic sections of the deliverable. What is the content? What is the order of the sections?
4. What is the final form of the deliverable? What do
you have to leave with your client? Hard
copy? Digital file? CD?
5. What are the milepost dates? Milepost dates are times by which you have to
finish something: include meetings with
your client, date of finishing the ‘alpha’ version, the ‘beta’ version, and the
final version,
6. Will you perform a usability test? If so, when and
who will be involved? If not, who will give you feedback on your drafts and
when?.
Due Dates
Send
Status Report to Dan Riordan riordand@uwstout.edu on these dates:
Just type the report into the email. Don’t send attachments.
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October 15
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November 1
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November 15 on
this day, in addition to your status report, also make an appointment for me to
review the "alpha draft" of your work
1. Introduction,
2. Log of Hours,
3. Work Completed,
4. Work Yet to Complete,
5. Problems/Accomplishments,
6. How You Are Meeting Your Learning Objectives.
C. Final Portfolio
Due December 15--Final
Portfolio Due.
Sections
Include all of the following in your
Final Portfolio
1. a "learning report" in which you detail what
you have learned about communication--explain whether and how you achieved your
learning goals, and other topics as necessary. A sample learning report.
2. a narrative history of the project and a log of the
dates and hours spent on the project
1. a copy of the proposal and of the plan
2. a copy of the final deliverable
1. Articulate in broad terms the project that
will be performed. The Practicum Director OKs the project.
2. Write a plan for the project including
audience, goal for the audience, final form of the deliverable, basic content
of the document, milepost dates including alpha version, beta version, final
version, review process with client, status report
dates to Director, and usability test dates if applicable. In addition list
your learning goals for the practicum.
3. Submit the plan for approval to both the
Director and the client.
4. Create a plan for the document including
audience, goal for audience and page template (margins, fonts, handling of
visual aids, colors).
5. Enroll in ENGL-437 Practicum. Note:
YOU CAN NOT ENROLL ONLINE. To enroll you must meet with the Practicum Director
(Dan Riordan, HH 202F, riordand@uwstout.edu)
and get his signature on an Add Card.
During the project
1. Send a detailed status report to the
Director every two weeks. This report must include introduction, log of hours, work
completed, work yet to complete, problems or accomplishments, learning
objectives met.
1. Deliver the final product to the client.
2. Hand in a final portfolio for the course.
This portfolio must contain:
a. a "learning report" in which you detail
what you have learned about communication--explain whether and how you achieved
your learning goals, and other topics as necessary. A sample
learning
report.
b. a narrrative history of
the project and a log of the dates and hours spent on the project
c. a copy of the proposal and of the plan
d. a copy of the final deliverable