ENG-W 231 Professional Writing Skills is offered by the Writing Program in IUPUI’s (now IU Indianapolis's) School of Liberal Arts Department of English.
The course focuses on partnerships between students and the community. Students in ENG-W 231 reach out and connect with community clients around Indianapolis. Then, ENG-W 231 teams invest hundreds of hours exploring and analyzing a workplace challenge or opportunity identified by their partners.
Highlights of the ten-week partnership:
The Department of English offers over 35 sections of ENG-W 231 each year which serve over 900 IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) students and 150 community partners. As part of their team Recommendation Report projects, IUPUI's (now IU Indianapolis's) ENG-W 231 students invest over 30,000 hours each year to discover and share best practices and industry trends with Indiana.
CHIP Recommendation Report: Finding Funding While Supporting Other Area NFPs
The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) is looking for new opportunities to find sufficient funding for their organization. The purpose of this recommendation report is to show evidence from the team’s...
Hampton Design Studios: Reaching Audiences Through Social Media
This report is aimed at helping Hampton Designs Studio reach a larger audience and an increase in consumers through the use of social media.
The IU School of Medicine Recommendation Report examines the challenges students face with academic advising during their undergraduate experience. Our team started the project by researching best practices in advising trends...
The IUPUI School of Informatics and Computing (SOIC) have been exploring various recruitment methods to effectively communicate with prospective students about their program. Their primary goals are to have potential students...
The Olaniyan Scholars Program Recommendation Report examines best practices to engage and support undergraduate research opportunities for African American students at IUPUI. Currently, universities including IUPUI face...
Recommendation Report for Down Syndrome Indiana on Increasing Engagement
Down Syndrome Indiana is looking to increase awareness of its organization to IUPUI students and improve their social media engagement from a younger generation, specifically on Instagram. In order to accomplish this, we have...
The Copper Trace recommendation report looks at industry-level practices and cutting-edge research to determine how best to improve retention of CNAs, RNs, and LPNs past the first 90 days for this local long-term care facility....
Recommendation Report: Strategies for Agape Horse Therapy to Attract Volunteers Ages 14-24
Agape Horse Therapy is interested in expanding their use of social media platforms in order to attract volunteers aged 14-24. Our team Recommendation Report will benefit Agape Horse Therapy by providing the best social media...
Salamat Cookies seeks to expand their small business to unite the Filipino community together in appreciating and sharing the joy of eating cookies. As a team, we have dedicated research in specific demands that will drive...
Youmi Crepes and Boba is in search of ways to increase their social media presence across three social media platforms for the purpose of reaching new customers in their target audience, and to effectively retain the customer...
