Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Scenario:
After researching current services for Student Veterans available at Purdue University and comparable academic
institutions, you find yourself as part of a team of experts brought into the school to create new advertising,
accessibility guidelines, documents, and/or services by the upper administration. As a result, you will do some
investigation and formulate a program, documents, and advertising campaign to raise awareness about Student
Veterans and Student Veteran services as Purdue. As most of you are not veterans, you will need to be sensitive to
the circumstances and needs of veterans in order to build your ethos. Because your projects will be adapted to the
particular programs and services you are researching, project outcomes may vary widely, but must meet a
standard minimum number of deliverables.
Task:
Now that you have been hired into your groups, according to your preferences, its time to start further
exploring new scenarios and developing an approach to creating internal and external materials that will
culminate in a program plan, a variety of documents, and a formal presentation. We will officially choose topics
once you are in groups on March 28 in class.
You will have a good degree of freedom in completing this final project. Feel free to look to real-life scenarios, to
draw on your coursework in other classes, and especially to look towards your own interests and expertise. Think
about your major and what you might be asked to do in the workplace, and cultivate your skills in that arena. The
important part of this unit is to remember that you must produce internal and external documents, which have
different purposes and audiences. Being able to communicate within both situations is incredibly important in a
workplace context.
Finally, this is a group project, which brings with it excitement and collaboration, as well as potential pitfalls. The
progress report memos, and the group contract youll be creating, are designed to mediate the tensions that can
arise out of group work. However, workplaces are increasingly collaborative, and this project is designed to be a
positive experience where you can work on relevant skills.