WRIT 599 Internship

A professionally supervised experience in writing, editing, researching, publishing, and comparable duties common for writers.

Liberty University aims to prepare each student for a variety of careers in which his/her faith can be lived out in practice. This course provides the student with an opportunity to practice workplace-based faith before graduation—and well within the Liberty support structure. Also, as a course that brings together various disciplines, including government, business, theology, and any other field of study that a student’s job placement may involve, this course offers a truly integrated approach to education through actual practice and scheduled events.

Course readings and lecture presentations

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The student will write a 3–4-page paper according to either the APA, MLA, or Turabian writing styles. This assignment gives the student a chance to consider his/her internship in perspective. The student will describe the location, goals, duties, and setting of the internship and will focus on how the location was chosen, how it will serve his/her future vocational aspirations, and advance his/her Christian worldview.

Throughout the course, the student must submit 8 Time Log and Update Assignments. Each submission must contain a brief written overview of the work completed over the previous module of the internship. This overview should not exceed 1 paragraph. In addition, the student must submit a work log of all the hours completed over the previous Module. This log must be signed the student’s internship supervisor. A form for this assignment is provided.

The student will write a 3–4-page paper according to either the APA, MLA, or Turabian writing styles. This assignment will allow the student to reflect on his/her learning objectives that were set by the student and his/her supervisor before the internship. The student will perform a self-evaluation, which is a practice that he/she will encounter annually at most jobs in the future where he/she will look at what objectives were set the previous year, and discuss how he/she fared.

The student will write a 3–4-page paper according to either the APA, MLA, or Turabian writing styles. The assignment will allow the student to reflect on his/her internship and how it is going. The student will be given an opportunity to discuss what he/she has learned and how he/she was prepared for that type of work. 

The student will write a 3–4-page paper according to either the APA, MLA, or Turabian writing styles. The assignment gives the student a chance to consider an often neglected topic. The student will examine how this topic relates to his/her current internship or planned career. The idea of ethical considerations within the workplace is an important concept that is often neglected, but important. Ethical standards are important because they provide structure and stabilization of the operational functions within a business. They help to understand what is good and bad, and this helps to choose between right and wrong actions when dealing with fellow workers and customers.

The student will write a 5–6-page paper according to either the APA, MLA, or Turabian writing styles. The assignment will allow the student to reflect on his/her internship and how it went over the entire period. The student will be given an opportunity to discuss what he/she learned and how he/she was prepared for that type of work.

At the end of the internship, the student’s internship supervisor must complete the Supervisor Evaluation form. The supervisor must completely fill out the form, sign it, and give it to the student, who will submit it for the faculty advisor to review.