{"id":19787,"date":"2020-11-29T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=19787"},"modified":"2020-11-29T16:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T21:53:37","slug":"white-paper-assignment-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/29\/white-paper-assignment-series\/","title":{"rendered":"White Paper Assignment Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pxfuel.com\/en\/free-photo-jrgdc\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/business-computer-connection-cooperation-pxfuel-400w.jpg?resize=300%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black person typing on a laptop, at a wooden table with notebooks, coffee cup, and phone\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19789 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/business-computer-connection-cooperation-pxfuel-400w.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/business-computer-connection-cooperation-pxfuel-400w.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I just updated a series of assignments related to writing a white paper, in response to a colleague\u2019s request. The series includes a series of four assignments, which are listed and linked at the bottom of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tracigardner.github.io\/TechComm\/assignments\/whitepaper\/white-paper-overview-2018.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Overview page<\/a>. Students also wrote a short, informal progress report, which is not included.<\/p>\n<p>Students worked through all of the assignments with few major challenges when I taught this series. The assignments connected relatively well, but the projects had the typical issues I see when assignments are not as authentic as possible. Specifically, the imaginary companies  students created were not always an exact match for the projects. When I teach this series again, I will pay more attention to the Info Sheet assignment and ask students to change companies if they do not fit the expectations. <\/p>\n<p>Another challenge, students were required to make up information for some of the writing projects. In more authentic writing scenarios, all the details would be established and known. If you choose to use this series, I encourage you to make the activities more authentic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 60px;\">Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pxfuel.com\/en\/free-photo-jrgdc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pxfuel<\/a>, used under public domain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated a series of assignments related to writing a white paper, in response to a colleague\u2019s request. The series includes a series of four assignments, which are listed and linked at the bottom of the Overview page. Students also wrote a short, informal progress report, which is not included. Students worked through all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-599","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19793,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions\/19793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}