During the final weeks of class,
students will work in teams of 3-5 people, helping a campus organization,
academic department, or area business write documents.
In consultation with the course
instructors, each team will solicit a local organization or business
for various writing tasks that will serve as the team's final
course project.The nature of these projects vary from group to
group because the project will be greatly controlled by the client
each group chooses, as well as that client's needs. Projects
may include proposals or executive summaries, marketing reports,
public relations pieces, policy guidelines, grant proposals,
training manuals, brochures, and so forth.
When the course was last offered,
students wrote, revised, and formatted documents for the following
organizations: CalTV; TranSystems Corporation; Filice Brown Eassa
& McLeod LLP; and UC Berkeley's Career Center. Other campus and Bay Area organizations
that have served as clients for this course include:
- Alameda Meals on Wheels
- UC Berkeley College Panhellenic
Association
- Willard Youth Support Program
- Academic Achievement Program,
a Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Berkeley
- Cal Calling Center, the hub
of UC Berkeley's fundraising
- UC Berkeley's College Writing
Programs
- Sebastian Ward Center for Ceramic
Arts
- UC Berkeley Molecular &
Cell Biology Department
- Cal's Student Alumni Mentorship
Program
- UC Berkeley's Renter's Legal
Assistance
- Experience in Software
- UC Berkeley's Student Learning
Center
- California Alumni Association
- Oakland's Asian Health Services
- UC Berkeley's Student Musical
Activities Administrative Office
- Foundation for Leaders in Engineering
and Entreprenurial Technologies (FLEET)
- UC Berkeley's Senior Gift Campaign.
- UC Berkeley Summer Sessions
- Chetkovich Career Center at
the Haas School of Business
- Student Parent Project
- Cal Corps Public Service
Center
- Undergraduate Finance Association/Undergraduate
Management Consultants Group
- California Public Interest Research
Group (CALPIRG)
- Student Tutorial Endeavor Program
(S.T.E.P.), an after-school program in Oakland started by UC
Berkeley alumnus, Chris Martinez
- Berkeley YWCA
- Suitcase Clinic
- Relostyle, a San Francisco-based
relocation service
- Retrieva.com
- Jobs for Homelessness Consortium,
and
- CrossWinds Non-Denominational
Church
If you would like more information
about any of these client projects, or would like to become a
client and work with future professional writing students, please
contact the instructor at: cmcole@berkeley.edu