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PAS 1000: Planning For Academic Success/First Year Experience First Year Experience Brochure What are some of the things you think are important to know for incoming student starting college in general and specifically to your Community College? For this assignment, you will design a brochure to assist in the transition from high school to college. Your brochure will consist of your learning experiences in your first semester and ways to avoid mistakes in your second semester. The function of a brochure is to create interest to the reader. The point is to hook your audience into reading the brochure. Remember, your audience is important when designing a brochure! This FYE brochure is to help future PGCC students make an easier transition to college. Please add your personal experiences and perhaps a quote from another student. Make the brochure as personalized as possible! This brochure can be serious or humorous. On a separate sheet, site your sources. Here are some topics you may choose for your brochure, or you can choose any topic from the textbook that may be relevant to you. Please choose a minimum of three topics (max 5) for your tri-fold brochure. Topics: Time Management Goal Setting Diversity Academic Success Skills/Techniques (ie Test-taking, Studying, Note-taking, Reading, etc) Money Management/Financing your Education Career Exploration Faculty Expectations of College Students Your Responsibilities (Academic and Personally) Making Friends/Communication/Working on Group Projects Campus Academic Resources/Student Clubs/Sports Having an Agenda Choosing Your Classes/Academic Advising Understanding the Academic Requirements of Your Program of Study Adapted from Julienne Ugalde, M.S. and Joan-Beth Gow, Ph.D., Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA for the 31st Annual Conference on The First Year Experience, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Grading Rubric for First Year Experience Brochure: Content and Requirements: Advanced Proficient Emerging Not Demonstrated Does the student have all the required elements? Content/Accuracy: Student has chosen 3 content areas. Brochure should have appropriate information and not be overcrowded. The brochure has all of the required information and some additional information. The brochure has all of the required information. The brochure has most of the required information. The brochure has little of the required information. Graphics/Pictures: Clip art can be in black and white or color, but not a combination of the two. The graphics go well with the text and there is a good mix of text and graphics. The graphics go well with the text, but there are so many that they distract from the text. The graphics go well with the text, but there are too few. The graphics do not go with the accompanying text or appear to be randomly chosen. Accuracy: Information within the brochure is accurate and thoroughly explained. The brochure has all of the required factual information and some additional information. The brochure has all of the required factual information. The brochure has most of the required factual information. The brochure has little of the required factual information. Sources Careful and accurate records are kept to document the source of 95-100\% of the facts and graphics in the brochure. Careful and accurate records are kept to document the source of 94-85\% of the facts and graphics in the brochure. Careful and accurate records are kept to document the source of 84-75\% of the facts and graphics in the brochure. Sources are not documented accurately or are not kept on many facts and graphics. Appearance and organization: The brochure is visually appealing, has appropriate content, and contains text. It can be humorous or serious. The brochure has exceptionally attractive formatting and well-organized information. Each section has a clear beginning, middle, and end. The brochure has attractive formatting and well-organized information. Most of the sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle, and end. The brochure has well-organized information or was attractive, but not both. Some of the sections of the brochure don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. The brochures formatting and organization of material are confusing to the reader. Most sections of the brochure do not have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Format/Layout: The brochure is 2-sided, tri-fold document and has appropriate font and capitalization when necessary. Brochure uses appropriate vocabulary. Format and layout are well organized. There is consistency in its components that allow the reader to easily locate information. Format and layout are organized. Most components are consistent within the brochure. Information can be located. Format and layout are somewhat organized. Most of the components are not consistent. Partial information can be located. Format and layout are confusing. Components are inconsistent and information is missing. Mechanics: 1. The paper adheres to the rules of standard grammar, and punctuation. 2. Spelling is correct. 3. The tone is appropriate to the First Year Experience content. 4. Students must place their names on the last page of the brochure. All of the writing is done in complete sentences. Capitalization and punctuation are correct throughout the brochure. Most of the writing is done in complete sentences. Most of the capitalization and punctuation are correct throughout the brochure. Some of the writing is done in complete sentences. Some of the capitalization and punctuation are correct throughout the brochure. Most of the writing is not done in complete sentences. Most of the capitalization and punctuation are not correct throughout the brochure. 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