Team Recommendation Report
About the Team & W231
About Your IUPUI Student Writing Consultants
Sections below need bolded and highlighted as needed
The ABOUT area is a great space to include photos of each team member, brief bios, and roles you played during the project. You can even add a hyperlink to your LinkedIn page or other professional networking site.
You can also include contextualizing material on the Professional Writing Skills team project as well as the procedures of connecting with clients and electing class projects.
[The simple option is to insert a paragraph or two from WRITING PROJECT ONE that comments on W231 projects.]
A Quick Note About:
Introducing Your Team & W231
Teams are encouraged to introduce your members
This includes adding photos, and comment on which sections each team member helped develop.
In addition, teams can boilerplate the W231 information below to help clients better understand the context and scope of the Recommendation Report project.
Your class is one of 42 sections working with community clients this calendar year.
STUDENT EXAMPLES
About IUPUI’s W231 Professional Writing Skills
W231 Professional Writing Skills is offered by the Writing Program at IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts.
In W231 student complete a 10-week, intensive research project with their community client. Students in W231 connect with clients around Indianapolis then provide 200+ hours of exploration, research, and analysis at no charge to their partners. The experience-based course combines academic rigor and community service; the assignments challenge students to explore, analyze and innovate then compose practical recommendations to address workplace problems.
W231 includes independent writing projects throughout the semester as well as the team project.
Independent writing projects include:
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Connecting with and interviewing local professionals
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Practicing a variety of different types of professional writing genres (emails, memos, letters, recommendation reports, etc)
TEAM/COMMUNITY CLIENT RECOMMENDATION REPORT
The ten-week team project, condenses and summarizes over 100 hours of online and database exploration with the team's local study to shape recommendations for the formal recommendation report.
Some organizations who have worked with W231 students for the team project include:
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Indiana NBA Pacers
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Eskenazi Hospital
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Boys and Girls Club
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Creekside Counseling
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IUPUI CAPS
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Back on My Feet
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Ronald McDonald House
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Bru Burger
THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS SERVE INDIANAPOLIS and GET REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE
In the last two decades, over 15,000 students completed W231. These students partnered with over 2,500 community clients. Each team of W231 student writing consultants is made up of four to five students.
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Student-teams explore best practices and industry trends through academic databases and online sources; they condense a team's 100+ hours or research into a Review of Literature.
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Next, teams create and distribute a local study to gather real-time information on the challenge.
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Finally, teams invests about 100 hours in analyzing their findings and composing the recommendation report.
This year W231 students will partner with approximately 100 community partners and dedicate over 25,000 hours to their projects.
To learn more about the class W231: Professional Writing Skills visit: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/english/pages/writing-program-folder/courses.php#rtab5
A Quick Note About:
Your Team Page
Your Team Page on your ePortfolio for the CLIENT TO ACCESS the REPORT + WEBSITE
The team page is an important component of the team project because it provides your client access to the report, the local study, and more information about you and W231.
Why Does the Team Page Matter? SOME STUDENTS USE THEIR W231 PROJECT AS a WRITING SAMPLE for SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, or GRAD SCHOOL
Because you wrote some parts of the report, and other team members wrote other parts of the report, the team page is essential for folks who might review the report to know exactly what you contributed. This will help them flip to sections you wrote if you are applying for scholarships, awards, or graduate studies.
Your Bios:
For your Team bios, feel free to add a comment on the role each team member played: writer + web designer, editor, local study coordinator, chart builder, communications coordinator, record keeper, and so on
Support Tools
Here are some team page examples from past students
