Mid Term Report and Presentation

Due Oct 28 and Nov 4

Mid-term presentation: (10 min, 4 marks)

Mid-term report: (4 marks)

Description + content

The Mid Term Report (MTR) is intended to be a document of what you have been involved in during your internship so far.You should address these questions:

1. What have you been working on?

2. What have you learned?

3. How has your role and work shifted from your initial Scope of Work?

4. Are there any new goals that have been defined?

For your MTR you expected to be creative! It should contain the following information:

• Images that document what you have been working on, and any other visual information that you think would help show your involvement in your internship

• A description or list of the things you have been involved with outlining your role and contribution.

• A description or list of what you have learned.

• A description or list of what you hope to achieve and any new goals.

Delivery of your SOWR

You are asked to present your MTR during the class of Oct 28 or Nov 4. Once you have given your presentation you are to upload a PDF version of your MTR to your blog for me to download.

Here is the list of presentations on their respective days:

October 28

Mary

Hao Ting

John

Zack

Megan

Ashley

November 4

Sisi

Shaughnessy

Ben

Jula

Dana

Sachi

Shannon

Derek

Anthony

Billy

Diana

– Julie

Online resources for getting blogging

wordpress support!

Top tips for writing

Mark Bernstein offers ten thoughtful and inspired tips for writing blogs, although each tip could just as easily offer guidance for living a meaningful life as writing well. My three favorite points he makes are:

• Write passionately about things that matter

• Don’t tell us what happened: tell us why it matters

• Show us the details, teach us why they matter

George Orwell, in his 1946 lament Politics and the English Language, suggests the following:

1. “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”