Title: INTERNSHIP IN TECHNICAL WRITING OR EDITING

PRQ: Consent of department internship coordinator.

Course Description: Job-related experience involving primarily writing or editing and supervised cooperatively by the department's internship coordinator and by the sponsoring company or organization. Past sponsors have included:

• NIU School of Theatre and Dance

• NIU Football

• Teach Girls Global

• DanFoss Electric

• WNIJ

• Watt Publishing

• DuPage Habitat for Humanity

• College of Lake County

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car

• Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 semester hours; however, only 3 semester hours of credit may be applied toward a graduate degree in English. Open only to graduate students in English. Graded satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

Requirements: While the nature of the internship and the amount of credit awarded will be negotiated by the student, internship coordinator, and sponsoring company, the following requirements apply to most internships: a bibliography of readings related to the internship; an internship journal; a progress report; a final report, with examples of work completed; periodic conferences among the student, internship coordinator, and company mentor.

Note: 628 (either P1 or P2) may be counted as an applied rhetoric course toward the doctoral requirement for “at least two courses required for the Ph.D. with a pedagogical or applied component from two of the fields of language, literature, and rhetoric” (Graduate Student Handbook 19).