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 IUPUI’s School of Liberal Arts. The course focuses on a student/community client partnership. Students in W231 reach out and connect with clients around Indianapolis then provide hundreds of hours of exploration, research, and analysis at no charge to community partners. The experience-based course combines academic rigor and community service; the curriculum challenges students to analyze and innovate then pitch practical recommendations to address workplace problems.
W231 includes independent writing projects throughout the semester as well as a team project that spans 10 weeks. 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)
The ten-week team project, which is the recommendation report on this website, condenses and summarizes over 100 hours of research on an in-house challenged provided by our community client.
Other community organizations who have worked with the W231 class for the team project includes:
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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
Notable Statistics and Achievements of W231
W231: Professional Writing Skills includes:
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40+ sections each year (face-to-face, hybrid, and online)
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Over 1,070 students enrolled each year
Each team is made up of 4-5 students
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Partners with over 175 community clients every year
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Creates and distributes a local study that contains at least 50 respondents
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Invests about 200 volunteer hours for each client (100 hours on research and 100 hours on analysis and writing the report)
This year W231 students will partner with approximately 160 community partners and dedicate over 35,000 volunteer hours.
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
