Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian A. Waitz; Edward C. Barrett

, and analysis and reporting of results.The Communications Practicum provides focused instruction in both written and oral communication skills.The practicum syllabus is closely coupled to the projects lab. Strong motivation for the students to learn com-munications skills is provided since only a small fraction of the grade in the projects lab is determined by thefaculty advisors who work with each student team. The majority of the grade is awarded by the course staffwhose main insight into the research project is through a variety of written and oral assignments. Practicuminstruction is conducted in a specially designed electronic seminar room which allows online drafting, annota-tion, and peer review of documents, as well as video-taping and