The Portfolio is Coming Along

This week has been pretty productive. Though I have not done much, I have a lot to do. I am still waiting to here back from Trev about my press release I did for their company. It's been over a week and I'm getting a little nervous, but I know he is busy. I am planning on doing an interview for my article I am writing for the Incubator's newsletter; hopefully that will be next week, the man is out of town this week. Erin received an email from Winabeth Smith of the research company regarding some documents they needed edited. She was nice enough to share them with me and I was able to edit their response letter. I checked over that letter four times to make sure I caught everything. I found that there was at least two errors that I missed from the previous time so it was good to check over and over. I used the electronic editor in Word and sent it to Erin to include in the email back to Winabeth. Also, Dusty came by and spoke to us about doing an interview of a musician from Beckley. We decided we will both call him from the conference room and interview him together. Dusty already has the questions written up for us. I am definitly getting some interviewing experience. And one other thing, which may turn out to be nothing, is that I got an offer to write for the sports company here at the Incubator. Dale Weaver, the chief executive officer of Sports Weave, asked to see some samples of my writing because they are working to merge with a magazine, I think, and he needs somebody to write a few articles. So we will see.

Midterm Self-Assessment

This internship has showed me a lot about myself. I used to be so worried that I would not have enough skills to edit documents or write for other people. I have realized that if I take my time I'm not as bad of an editor as I thought. I've started to read over documents at least three times to make sure I caught all the errors. This is something I never used to do. I think since I am working for actual companies and not my teachers, I feel like everything has to be perfect. Of course I still need to improve a lot, but it's nice to know that I can do the job well enough. I have been able to practice my writing here as well. I still have a hard time expanding on my ideas, but I'm working on it. I wrote my first piece for Trev last week and I am just waiting on his response to see how well I did. I'm also glad that I am able to build up my portfolio. I actually have material I can show to employers. This class has been very beneficial for my experience.

Now I'm Overwhelmed

Well, I wanted work and now I'm feeling a little stressed. It's not really the internship but my research paper I have to do for another class and all of my online classes I am taking overload you with busy work.

Okay now that I have vented...I have been working on my press release for Choosy Kids lately and I am having a hard time putting it together for some reason. Usually I can just whip something up, but this release has to be great! I have never really written for anybody except my teachers and I think I'm just nervous. All I need is a draft right now so that's good. I interviewed Trev, vice president of Choosy kids, and got a lot of useful information. As of right now I have mini paragraphs that I'd like to use for the release, but I haven't put them in any order. I'm just so scattered for some reason. I've never written in scattered paragraphs before, but I'm starting to realize that it can be helpful. I've also written out an outline to try to help me focus my thoughts and it is helping a little. After I am done writing up my draft, Erin said she'd look over it for me and help me perfect it! I also had a question for anybody that reads this entry. Am I expected to work on these projects outside of work? I feel like I should and that he might expect that, but I have so much other work for school that I don't have time. Do you think he'll understand that? And he didn't give me a deadline, but I'd like to finish it today or tomorrow.

Away from Choosy Kids for a little while...Erin and I were asked if we would like to edit proposals by Dr. Gautem from the research department. I think we mentioned this. Well, I heard back from a Dr. Winnabeth Smith, who is a cancer researcher I believe. I thought we were going to be given stuff right away, because that's how Dr. Gautem made it sound, but I guess our names are just going to be put on a list of services offered for those who may need it. I guess we just have to wait and see if anybody calls!

Taking Stock 5

Sorry this is a day late, but I wasn't sure how to do this assignment since we don't really do any peer response here at the incubator. Thinking about it though, Erin and I review each others work. The instructions that we edited for Choosy Kids a few weeks ago were done separately and then we got together to compare notes. Then, today I asked Erin for some help thinking up questions that I can ask Trev for the press release I am writing. Erin just wrote an email to send out to the tenants letting them know that we are here and she had me look over it. So I guess we do have a little bit of peer response going on.
It's nice to have somebody that can look over your documents when you are finished or help you if you need any help. Since people come to us to do that for them, I think it is good to have two people here so the document can be checked by different eyes.