Please be aware that you need to submit a Final Paper to pass this course.

Your final paper is the best way for you to describe what you have done and what you have learned over the course of the internship.  It should be strongly based on the learning objectives that you submitted at the beginning of the semester.  The paper provides the opportunity for you to connect the dots between your specific job responsibilities, your learning objectives and how they relate to what you are learning in the classroom.  Beyond that, a written document will improve your recall as you go forward in your career.  You can refer back to this information in preparation for job interviews (you will probably be asked to discuss accomplishments or discuss how you reached a certain goal).  You can also refer back to the information when you confront similar challenges in future work situations.

Here are the guidelines for the paper:

Submit a 5-page single spaced (or 10-page double spaced) typewritten paper

The content of the paper must include:

A description of the type of business the company conducts (i.e. manufacturer, retailer, carrier, 3PL) number of employees and years in business.  Identify what your employment location does

For each learning objective:

Identify the learning objective.

Completely discuss what actions you took to complete each objective. 

Provide a clear measurement of the success of each objective accomplishment.  For example, Improved the invoice payment process to improve throughput from 5 invoices per hour to 7 per hour, reduced error rate by 12%, and lowered cost by 3%.  Support your claims.  (These achievements should appear on your resuults

Conclude by identifying what was learned and how you expect to use this experience in your future career.

Make sure your grammar and spelling are correct.  Any paper containing three or more spelling and grammatical errors will be returned to the student by the instructor requesting re-work and re-submission before a grade will be assigned.

Your supervisor must sign each page of your paper.  You must submit your final paper to Canvas in a timely manner as to give your instructor enough time to grade your paper (as well as all the others received) and file grades.  Refer to the due date on the Evaluations and Report Deadline sheet.