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Internships: Theory and Practice
Charles Sides and Ann Mrvica
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Baywood's Technical Communications Series, Series Editor: Charles H. Sides
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IN PRAISE OF
"The biggest obstacle that most internship directors face is the proposal. For academics contemplating establishing an internship in technical communication or revising an existing one, this book offers an excellent blueprint for all phases of the internship program. For those in business, industry, and government who anticipate being mentors or internship supervisors, this book provides guidelines and advice for making an internship a professional success. For students, this book provides an understanding of how internships work and how they can enhance students' professionalism by adding both depth and breadth to their classroom preparation. Chapters explain how an intern should prepare and how the intern will be evaluated.
Sides and Mrvica have contributed a major study to the literature on internships. Students contemplating an internship as well as internship academic supervisors and site supervisors should make this book a part of their library."
—Tom Warren, STC Fellow and Professor of English (technical writing), Oklahoma State University, Technical Communication, Volume 56, Number 4, November 2009
ABOUT THE BOOK
Internships: Theory and Practice focuses on the history, theory, value, design, administration, and evaluation of professional internships as an educational experience for college students. Internships are guided, pre-professional experiences that combine academic and professional components as a managed transition to professional careers. Touted by many as an educational innovation for the 21st century, internships (or experiential learning, or apprenticeships, as they once were called) have been a staple of professional preparation for centuries, dating back at least to the earliest documentation in the Middle Ages and no doubt far beyond that. Charles Sides and Ann Mrvica trace this history through primary sources to explore the development of internship experiences over the past 800 years, create an introduction to the topic of internships, and provide a foundation for modern college-corporation partnerships in professional education and training. The authors present specific guidelines and discussions on issues important to corporations, in terms of providing for internship experiences; issues important to colleges, in terms of designing and evaluating internships; and issues important to students, in terms of participating in and learning from internships.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Charles H. Sides, Ph.D., directs the Internship Program for the Department of Communications Media at Fitchburg State College. He has published eight books and more than two dozen refereed articles on a wide range of technical and professional communications issues. He serves as executive editor of the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, a leading international scholarly journal in its field, and is editor of the Baywood Technical Writing Book Series. An active consultant to defense, high-tech, and publications industries, Sides has worked with clients across the United States, as well as in the Middle East and Far East.
Ann Mrvica, Ed.D., is a professor in the Department of Communications Media at Fitchburg State College, where she supervises interns. She is an award-winning video producer with a background in corporate communications. Mrvica came to her teaching position at Fitchburg as a result of hosting interns in the business sector and so provides a unique perspective for this text.
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