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Too Many Cooks: Redesigning The English Program Website, Joshua Horton, Alex Battitori, Tyler Breedlove, Morgan Ebbs, Courtney Schlund, Chanda Williams, Celia Patterson Apr 2018

Too Many Cooks: Redesigning The English Program Website, Joshua Horton, Alex Battitori, Tyler Breedlove, Morgan Ebbs, Courtney Schlund, Chanda Williams, Celia Patterson

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The purpose of this project was to produce new content for the English Program webpages for Dr. Patterson’s course, ENGL 875 Seminar: Writing for the Web. Throughout all stages of this project, we consulted Janice Redish’s book Letting Go of the Words. The first stage of the project was to identify the webpages’ target audiences; this was achieved through the creation of personas that reflected the demographics of users. Through these personas, we developed a series of tasks for a preliminary usability test. Subsequently, we conducted the preliminary test on the existing English Program webpages using test subjects that reflected …


Opportunities For Departmental Strategic Planning: Enhancing The Experience For Incoming Transfer Students In The Department Of Communication, Gabriela Gumucio, Katlin Dunsing, Bethanne Elliott, Rebecca Henderson, Kaylin Lake, Karlie Lower, Alicia Mason Apr 2018

Opportunities For Departmental Strategic Planning: Enhancing The Experience For Incoming Transfer Students In The Department Of Communication, Gabriela Gumucio, Katlin Dunsing, Bethanne Elliott, Rebecca Henderson, Kaylin Lake, Karlie Lower, Alicia Mason

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The COMM 765: Strategic Planning & Communication Campaigns course conducted research on behalf of the Department of Communications to inform the future 2018-2023 planning and goals for the department. A quantitative survey was designed to examine key stakeholder groups including: faculty, staff, donors, current students and alumni. Each stakeholder group received a unique set of research questions. For example, donors were surveyed to determine their willingness, interest and knowledge of how to support department initiatives through the PSU Foundation; while current students were asked to share their thoughts on the effectiveness of current student organizations, and perceptions toward course developments …