Guidelines for Writing Your Internship/Work Experience Paper

The required paper for the internship experience (Bus 499)is a 5- page paper. The required paper for work experience (Bus 295) is a 2-page paper.

Your paper should be a "reflection" paper which broadly describes your internship or work experience. The following components would be appropriate: (1) A brief description of the business, (2) a discussion of your duties and what you learned. What you learned would include your reflections on not only the skills you have acquired, but also reflections on management, either because of practices you found desirable, or practices you found not particularly desirable. Where possible, attempt to relate this to your classroom experience. Comment on whether your university education was in any way relevant to your work experience as an intern. Also, perhaps you will develop insights regarding political behavior within organizations. You need not cover the above list exhaustively. It is meant to be suggestive of things that might be covered in your paper.

Last modified 01.30.2008 Duane Dove

Sonoma State University School of Business and Economics

Guidelines for Writing Your Internship/Work Experience Paper