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Internship Journals

Keeping a Journal of Your Internship Experience

Writing helps interns make connections, reflect, appraise and reappraise, plan and re-plan, and evaluate progress. The following may help give you ideas for journal entries. Begin by returning to your Learning Contract.

1. Describe the goals and objectives of the agency, business, or department for which you work.

2. Develop an organizational chart for the agency, business, or department in which you work and indicate where you fit.

3. Listen for "quotes of the day" said by persons around you or discovered in your reading. Jot them down in your journal and write your reactions. Relate to your major or minor field of interest.

4. What are the job performance expectations in your agency, business, or department? How do they compare with the academic expectations you have experienced as a student?

5. In what ways did your classroom knowledge help you to accomplish the tasks associated with your internship duties?

6. What factors seem to contribute to employee job satisfaction and productivity?

7. Have any of your ideas about the working world changed as a result of your internship experience? If so, how?

8. What did you learn through the internship about the relationship between knowledge gained in the classroom and practical experience? In what ways do they interrelate and in what ways do they fail to relate?

9. Select one class in your major or minor and apply concepts to your experience.

10. How can I best use the journal as a strategy for learning?

Record Reflection Log

1. Begin by recording details of the internship experience.

2. Reflect on the experience, analyze it, explore its significance and relate to other experiences or materials from textbooks.

3. Explore the implications of the experience for your future.

Adapted from: St. Cloud State University, Department of Speech Communication, 720 Fourth Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498



		Internship Journals Keeping a Journal of Your Internship Experience Writing helps interns make connections, reflect, appraise and reappraise, plan and re-plan, and evaluate progress. The following may help give you ideas for journal entries. Begin by returning to your Learning Contract. 1. Describe the goals and objectives of the agency, business, or department for which you work. 2. Develop an organizational chart for the agency, business, or department in which you work and indicate where you fit. 3. Listen for "quotes of the day" said by persons around you or discovered in your reading. Jot them down in your journal and write your reactions. Relate to your major or minor field of interest. 4. What are the job performance expectations in your agency, business, or department? How do they compare with the academic expectations you have experienced as a student? 5. In what ways did your classroom knowledge help you to accomplish the tasks associated with your internship duties? 6. What factors seem to contribute to employee job satisfaction and productivity? 7. Have any of your ideas about the working world changed as a result of your internship experience? If so, how? 8. What did you learn through the internship about the relationship between knowledge gained in the classroom and practical experience? In what ways do they interrelate and in what ways do they fail to relate? 9. Select one class in your major or minor and apply concepts to your experience. 10. How can I best use the journal as a strategy for learning? Record Reflection Log 1. Begin by recording details of the internship experience. 2. Reflect on the experience, analyze it, explore its significance and relate to other experiences or materials from textbooks. 3. Explore the implications of the experience for your future. Adapted from: St. Cloud State University, Department of Speech Communication, 720 Fourth Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498