Expanding the Learning Community: Using Electronic Mentoring to Build Academic/Industry Partnerships  

New technologies provide technical communicators with opportunities to expand their learning communities. Establishing and maintaining an electronic mentoring forum will benefit students and teachers.

Fink, Bonnie L., Leslie K. Gasser and Kara L. Schubert. STC Proceedings (1996). Academic>Internships>Industry and Academy>Education

Faculty Internship Panel  

The Faculty Internship Panel provides a guideline and model for faculty internship programs. Although technical communicator internships, particularly faculty internships in the corporate environment, are generally considered a good idea. They are difficult to set up. The Austin STC chapter (in collaboration with members of the Austin Technical Communications Mangers' Focus Group and the Technical Communications Department at Austin Community College) set up and ran a successful pilot Faculty Internship program. A panel offaculty interns and corporate sponsors provide pointers in planning, implementing, and evaluating such a program.

Rosenquist, Deborah J. STC Proceedings (1996). Academic>Internships>Education

Guidelines for the STC Faculty Internship Program  

In partnership with industry and faculty and in keeping with Society goals, grant stipends may be awarded to enable faculty to hold internship positions in industry on approval from the STC’s Board of Directors. An internship is paid full-time short-term employment for novice professionals. The STC Faculty Internship Program is designed to provide grant stipend support to enable full-time technical communication faculty with limited industry experience to accept internship positions in the technical communication industry.

Staples, Katherine E. STC (1998). Academic>Internships

Internship and Co-Op Database

MTU students, pursuing a degree in Scientific and Technical Communication, are encouraged to seek internship or Co-op opportunities which will provide them with professional experience prior to graduation. This page provides a listing of companies where students have worked in order to enhance their professional growth.

Michigan Tech University. Academic>Internships

Planning Successful Internships: Matchmaking for Organizational Culture  

The collaborative nature of information development departments create special challenges for student interns, challenges which require that the student, the academic department, and the information development department can meet with careful planning and preparation. An intern must not only be well prepared academically, with knowledge and skills that support a company’s needs; each intern must also understand and accept the organizational culture in which he or she must be deeply involved in order to work and learn effectively. The information development department can use each internship as an occasion to examine its own culture and communication patterns.

Rosenquist, Deborah J. and Katherine E. Staples. STC Proceedings (1994). Academic>Internships

Regulations Governing Internships  

The MTSC internship, an integral part of this program, is intended to provide students with supervised, first–hand experience at applying what they have learned in their classes to the kinds of professional situations they will encounter in their careers. Internships are also designed to help students gain or extend their direct, personal knowledge of the profession and its practices.

Miami University, Oxford. Academic>Internships

Student Internships in Technical Communication  

The internship is a very important part of the Scientific and Technical Communication program at the University of Minnesota. Through the internship students learn what it is like to work as technical communicators in the business setting and how to adapt to an organizational culture. The internship experience helps students research decisions about the type of technical communication work they would like to pursue and often leads to jobs offer after graduation. All undergraduate and graduate students are required to complete internships as part of their degree programs.

McDowell, Earl E. STC Proceedings (1997). Academic>Internships>TC

The Technical Writing Internship  

Based on her experiences as an interning technical communicator, Lurkis argues that internships are valuable experiences for both students and companies.

Lurkis, Elisa B. Intercom (2001). Academic>Internships