Students read a number of assigned books that they purchase from Olsen's Books and Records on 19th Street, N.W. near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Among these texts are Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Studs Terkle's Working. Throughout the internship, the One-World Washington Internship Program maintains a dossier filled with any written documents, research, press releases, and other materials generated by interns on the job. As mentioned earlier, at the end of the internship and before leaving Washington, each student submits a paper describing his or her internship in great detail and analyzing the value of the experience. Some interns keep a journal or diary to help them compose the final paper, which constitutes a large part of the intern's grade.

Faculty members write reports about each internship based on student papers as well as contracts and evaluation forms written by supervisors on the job and then mailed to the director of the Washington Internship Program. Upon request, these evaluations will be shown to students. At the end of the internship, a transcript bearing the student's grade (from A through F with pluses and minuses) along with a written description of the internship and a syllabus from the courses can all be mailed to colleges where interns seek to transfer academic credit or to future employers or graduate programs where the student may wish to apply.