Rachael Bourne's  SLWP Webfolio for the  YouVote This webfolio is dedicated to my WRA135 Service-Learning Writing Project for Fall 2005 at Michigan State University.  The agency I was placed with is The YouVote of East Lansing.

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Part I: Planning the Writing Project

Agreement and Proposal

Thus far, our YouVote coordinator, Tim O'Malley, has requested my class to provide him with some background information on some local elections.  However, throughout the rest of the semester our job is to get our community more involved and expand their knowledge on the upcoming November elections. Here are the full details to my Service-Learning Writing Project . (updates are offered below).

Audience Assessment

Becoming a part of service-learning I never realized the specifications required to target an audience, and because our Service-Learning Writing Project involves voting, our audience was quite larger than what I had expected.  With Tim O'Malley's help we were able to narrow down the demographics of our audience.

Part II: Working on the Writing Project

Fact File

The YouVote fact file includes detailed information describing the basics of the YouVote organization.   Among other information this document includes, their purpose and mission statement, who the organization serves, similar organizations, an interview with the YouVote coordinator Tim O'Malley, and a recent news article. 

Journal Entries

My journals consist of reflections from the assignments, each time we met with YouVote coordinator Tim O'Malley, and when our groups met to work on assignments.

Project Updates

Here is an update of any date changes for our assignments.

Service-Learning Writing Project for The YouVote

Part III: Evaluating the Writing Project

Reflections on the SLWP Experience

In this evaluation we answered questions relating to our understanding of the purpose of the SLWP experience and also comparisons to our past writing classes. Here are my responses to the questions where we were to evaluate individually. We were also supposed to collaborate with our groups to talk about the SLWP experience. Here are my individual responses to the evaluation.

Agency Evaluation for Service-Learning Writing Project

At this link is a "blank" version of the evaluation form my agency contact person, Tim O'Malley, will fill out at the end of the semester. Although the grades will remain confidential until the end of the semester, I can surely say that the assignments went smoothly

created: 9.05.05
last updated: 12.02.05