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Cathleen
Garbacik's 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 YouVote. |
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Part I:
Planning the Writing
Project
Here you will find what a brief description of our Service-Learning Writing Project, working with YouVote. Also, the document shows what is expected of me in my work with the organization, as well deadlines and due dates for YouVote assignments.
Audience Assessment
Knowing your audience is extremely important for your information to be effective. For our Service- Learning Writing project, Tim O'Malley helped me determine for whom I would actually be writing. Indeed, having never been engaged in Service-Learning before either, this was clearly a unique opportunity for me to "get a feel" for my quite sizable audience!
Part II: Working on the Writing Project
Fact File
Providing a compilation of facts regarding YouVote, this fact file offers information worth knowing concerning the YouVote website, the 2005 election, and the many issues involved in the election.
Journal Entries
Every time I participated in activities for YouVote, I was asked to recorded how things went in a journal. My journal entries include times where Tim O'Malley came into class with assignment updates and other YouVote activities such as group assignments. These journals were a great source to see how things went throughout the semester with YouVote.
Now the semester is halfway over, a project update is to be filled out. This update includes information about the project and the current assignments we are completing.
Service-Learning Writing Project for The YouVote
Below are the completed required assignments we are doing as part of our SLWP for YouVote. Some are to be completed on our own but many of them are group projects. The writings are viewable from this page which is linked off the YouVote website and some particular writings are chosen to be directly posted on the YouVote website for public viewing.
Assignment #1- Why is it important to vote at your age?
Assignment #2- Election Voting Timeframe
Assignment #3- Review East Lansing City Council Race
Assignment #4- Lansing Candidate Q&A - Candidate Debbie Miner did not respond
Assignment #5- What if we were Burundi?
Assignment #6- Looking Towards the Future
Assignment #7- Changing the System
Assignment #8- How does voting play into citizenship?
Part III: Evaluating the Writing Project
Reflections on the SLWP Experience
As the semester comes to an end we were asked to reflect on our SLWP Experience. My reflections highlight my entire SLWP learning and writing project.
Study Group Writing Project Evaluation
As I was working with my group for YouVote, we ran into a few problems along the way, but quickly solved them. Here is my group evaluation.Agency Evaluation for Service-Learning Writing Project
At the end of the semester, Tim O'Malley will have to fill out a project evaluation for me on my behalf. This is a blank copy of the form, which highlights what exactly I will be graded upon.
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