Internship

Report Writing Plan

Internship Report is made up of the following parts.

• Internship Report cover page,
• Contents
• Summary
• Internship Report main text
• Appendix pages (if any)

Cover Page : Cover page includes the information that will be printed on the front cover of the Internship Report. Cover page of the report will not be paged. Cover page must be written in accordance with the example given in APPENDIX-4/A.

Contents : Contents in Internship Report must be prepared in accordance with APPENDIX-4/B. Summary        : The aim, scope of the internship work, the method(s) used and the conclusion(s) will be stated clearly and shortly in a way that includes the summary of the report text without exceeding one page (APPENDIX-4/C)

Report Main Text : Internship Report main text should be prepared in a way to provide answers to the questions in Section V and to the questions in APPENIX-5 given by the Internship Committee if any.

Appendixes : An appropriate “title” must be selected for each “Appendix”, and must be numbered as Appendix-1, Appendix-2, Appendix-3 in accordance with the presentation order. (Ex: Appendix-1. Organizational Chart of the Institution).

Page Setup and Writing Rules

Internship Report must be written according to the report writing rules stated below and submitted on time.

Internship Report is a report that the questions in the internship booklet are answered and that includes additional works and/or drawings wanted from the students by the institution. The appendixes with too much drawing, photography and visual material will be submitted in a form (CD, DVD, Portfolio, etc.) announced by the internship committee

Internship Report:

• Must be written in digital format and printed on a white sheet in A4 size.
• MS-WORD standard word template, Times New Roman font, 12 font size and 1½ line spacing must be used.
• All pages of the Internship Report except for the cover page must be paged and each page of the report should be signed and sealed by the authorities of the institution.
• The report is made up of “Izmir University of Economics Internship Report Cover Page” example of which is given in APPENDIX-4/A and the texts and appendixes that include the answers of the general questions under “Questions to be answered” title in section V of this booklet and other additional questions required by the Internship Committee if any.
• The students must give importance to the language used in the Internship Report; titles, sections, subsections, margins must be standard and in integrity, and the students must pay attention to spelling and punctuation

Students must refrain from using unnecessary information and documents in the report, and they must give reference to the information that support the main text of the report, page them and put them to the appendixes part without exceeding 5 pages.

Questions To Be Answered for Internship Report

The following questions must be answered in detail in Internship Report. The report is not restricted with these questions; if necessary, you may give information apart from these questions.

QUESTION 1- Give the following information about the institution you performed your internship.

(2 pages at most):

1. Name and address of the institution
2. Its field of activity
3. Sort history of the institution that introduces the development of the institution
4. Upper institution it is affiliated to (if any) and existing facilities
5. Number of employees in the institution and their classification according to their qualities (worker, technician, engineer, administrative personnel, etc.)
6. For manufacturer enterprises: produced goods, production capacity, basic raw materials, material supply methods, annual production amounts and target markets.
7. For service enterprises: services presented, service capacity, basic inputs and target markets.

QUESTION 2- By drawing the organizational chart of the institution; please state which units fulfill production/service and general business administration functions, relations, authority and responsibilities between the departments.

The activities a company must perform in order to fulfill its aims defined as producing and/or marketing economic goods/services are named as business administration functions and they are gathered under following titles:

•         Management                               
•         Production
•         Marketing
•         Finance and Accounting
•         Personnel / Human Resources
•         Research – Development
•         Public Relations

Management is a process made up of planning, organizing, coordinating, orienting and supervising the activities of people to reach the foundation aim of the enterprise.

Planning is to determine and arrange what to do, how to do, when to do and with whom to do.

Organizing is to set an organization in accordance with the aims established in planning process and the ways determined to reach these.

Orientation is activating the operation of the organization by using organizational communication, motivation level of the wage earners and leadership attributes.

Coordination is to combine the efforts of the wage earners, arrange the time, provide the activities to be successive in order to reach the common goal and interpenetrate them to integrate each other.

Supervision is to confirm what is implemented in business administration functions, how it is implemented and to what extent it is implemented.

QUESTION 3- Did you have a chance to use your foreign language during your internship? What was this foreign language? Please answer in Yes/No format and specify which languages you used.

QUESTION 4- State your ideas and suggestions that could increase efficiency in the processes of production and service at the institution you do the internship.

QUESTION 5- Please list the duties you performed throughout your internship and explain what you did about these duties. Please attach the visual documents if any to the Internship Report.

QUESTION 6- What kind of applications you saw about the theoretical knowledge you gained? Specify openly. Give example.

QUESTION 7- Please tell what this internship gave to you in one paragraph.

PS: Please take the questions you have to answer from Internship Committee (If required).

Additional Question: Evaluate your internship from a sociological perspective by using your observations.  If it is possible, please write an analysis based on a questionnaire or an interview that you have done during your internship.

Department of Sociology Internship Committee

Asst. Prof. Seher ŞEN

Assoc. Prof. Derya NİZAM BİLGİÇ

Prof. Hatice Deniz YÜKSEKER TEKİN