So I've been relly sick for the past week, which is why I didn't blog on Wednesdy. On Wednesday I also did not go to my weekly internship meeting with Val because I could not get out of my bed. But I did call her, and she was really understanding about it. She was also really understanding about the fact that my articles were not quite done being edited yet. And yet I've stayed sick and busy with things to do.
So here it is Sunday, and I am working my little fingers to the bone so that Matt & Val will have seven completely edited articles in their inboxes when they arrive to work on Monday monring. I feel really bad about being four days late on my not written in stone deadline.
The editing is still going well. I feel like the majority of what I do is add commas. Glamorous, I know. And at this exact moment I cannot bring into my head what Scott Wible told me I'm supposed to be using my blog to do. Think about what I'm going to put in my portfolio? Think about the skills I'm developing? Really, I can't remember.
But I have one more article to do, and other classes with daunting work, so off I go.
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We'll be talking about the "reflective" component of the blogs and the portfolios in more detail during our second round of meetings. The readings in Chapter 3 of _Portfolio Keeping_ can give you a sense of how you might productively use the blog this semester. There are lots of questions in that chapter that you could draw on to help you "keep watch" of your learning (to quote the book's authors, Nedra Reynolds and Rich Rice). These types of questions are ones that ask to think about what you're learning as you progress through your internship, to think about how you're learning it, and to consider what's working well and not so well in terms of your researching, writing, or editing processes. While you certainly could make connections between your internship and your work in ENGL 302, you also might want to explore about what you're learning about "academic writing" and how it functions (as you'll certainly be reading much of it over the next three years in law review journals), about the production process of journals, or even about the subject matter itself -- particularly since you're working with materials that relate to the field in which you're hoping to work.
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