Well this was a week that was partially over spring break. But since track takes over my life, I've been back in Morgantown since yesterday. I was going to go in this morning, but Matt emailed me yesterday that there really wasn't any need. So I've just been working on what I have, which is a lot!
IJSF: I finally got all of the articles back from the authors with the approved edits. I forwarded the final one to Jamie (our typesetter) yesterday. But I got an email from her today that said that the track changes weren't accepted. They appeared accepted on my computer, but I tried again and resent them to her. Matt said they looked accepted to him and that he had never had this problem before. So hopefully it's all fixed now. Now we're just waiting for her to produce the proofs so that I can proofread them.
Copyediting: I finally finished the IJSEP articles about the Olympics over the weekend. Nothing very exciting there. I have nine or ten chapters of a book about the history of teaching physical education to edit for Val. I haven't started them yet, but it's not something that's due anytime soon.
MLA: I also have this giant reference section (seriously, like 26 pages of nothing but references) that is not in MLA format that I have to put into MLA. It's a giant pain, but I'm about half way done now and just have to push through to the end. I still hate formatting. I know that it's necessary, but it's so tedious.
There really isn't anything exciting to report this week. I've been thinking a little about my portfolio and poster presentation, and my ideas are getting slightly less cloudy.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Writing Assignment 3
So I'm not exactly sure what the English Department at WVU values. From the website and my own experience, I believe that they value individual expression and the sharing of ideas, while also expecting overall correctness and good presentation.
When looking over my folder of work for this internship, it is mostly copyediting. Which is terribly boring and hard to present, but I've put so much time and mental effort into it that I really do want to find a way to display it. And then I think the thing that will be most reflective of my time at FIT will be the IJSF issue that I'm helping through the process. I will not only have all of the original, copyedited, author approved, proofread, and final articles, but also all of the email communications I've had with Matt, Dennis (the editor), Jamie (the typesetter), and the authors.
For the purpose of this class, my portfolio is an academic one, but it could also be used as a professional one in the future. The scope is my internship at FIT. The only real requirement is that it have 20 pages of polished writing and a reflective piece that states something about me as a writer. It must be submitted as a web portfolio that is on the internet. The quality must be very good, it needs to visually appealing, as well as reflective of my work.
I would like my portfolio to reflect how much work I've put into this internship and how much I've learned. I think this is important because it reflects how much I've grown throughout this internship as an editor.
My main audience is Scott Wible. But it will also be viewed by my peers, and possibly other staff or future employers. Scott Wible will want to know what I've done, what I learned from it, and how that has helped me as a writer. My peers will be looking at it in comparison to their own experiences and possibly to guage what to expect in a PWE internship. They will expect to see polished work. I would like all of my audiences to think that I am a good editor and a good communicator. I would like them to think that I have worked hard and with professionalism.
I'm not sure how to sketch a site map on here, so I'm just going to talk about it. At the moment I"m planning on having the home page be my reflective essay, and there will be four main pages linked off of this page. One will be MLA formatting and all of the fabulous things I have learned about it. The second will be what I've learned about the editing process. The third will have a short overview of all the copyediting I did, and then links to some articles. The fourth will be a page about the IJSF and have links that reflect the process I have gone through with it.
I want my web page to be very clean and uncluttered. I don't want a million links or dancing clowns or anything crazy. I want it to convey a professional tone. I don't want the colors to be boring black and white, but I'm not going crazy pink or anything. Other than that, I'm really not too sure yet what it will look like.
As far as the posters go, I think this could be an interesting challenge for me. The ones I liked the best were brightly colored, the components were visually seperated, and there wasn't a lot of text. The ones with lots of black on white text looked boring and hard to read.
When looking over my folder of work for this internship, it is mostly copyediting. Which is terribly boring and hard to present, but I've put so much time and mental effort into it that I really do want to find a way to display it. And then I think the thing that will be most reflective of my time at FIT will be the IJSF issue that I'm helping through the process. I will not only have all of the original, copyedited, author approved, proofread, and final articles, but also all of the email communications I've had with Matt, Dennis (the editor), Jamie (the typesetter), and the authors.
For the purpose of this class, my portfolio is an academic one, but it could also be used as a professional one in the future. The scope is my internship at FIT. The only real requirement is that it have 20 pages of polished writing and a reflective piece that states something about me as a writer. It must be submitted as a web portfolio that is on the internet. The quality must be very good, it needs to visually appealing, as well as reflective of my work.
I would like my portfolio to reflect how much work I've put into this internship and how much I've learned. I think this is important because it reflects how much I've grown throughout this internship as an editor.
My main audience is Scott Wible. But it will also be viewed by my peers, and possibly other staff or future employers. Scott Wible will want to know what I've done, what I learned from it, and how that has helped me as a writer. My peers will be looking at it in comparison to their own experiences and possibly to guage what to expect in a PWE internship. They will expect to see polished work. I would like all of my audiences to think that I am a good editor and a good communicator. I would like them to think that I have worked hard and with professionalism.
I'm not sure how to sketch a site map on here, so I'm just going to talk about it. At the moment I"m planning on having the home page be my reflective essay, and there will be four main pages linked off of this page. One will be MLA formatting and all of the fabulous things I have learned about it. The second will be what I've learned about the editing process. The third will have a short overview of all the copyediting I did, and then links to some articles. The fourth will be a page about the IJSF and have links that reflect the process I have gone through with it.
I want my web page to be very clean and uncluttered. I don't want a million links or dancing clowns or anything crazy. I want it to convey a professional tone. I don't want the colors to be boring black and white, but I'm not going crazy pink or anything. Other than that, I'm really not too sure yet what it will look like.
As far as the posters go, I think this could be an interesting challenge for me. The ones I liked the best were brightly colored, the components were visually seperated, and there wasn't a lot of text. The ones with lots of black on white text looked boring and hard to read.
Week 8 & 9
So I totally forgot to post last Wednesday, and then I was out of town from Thursday-Monday and by yesterday I figured that I might as well wait.
So here are two very similar weeks rolled into one. Really, I don't know what Matt & Val told me last week, and I don't seem to have any notes on it. But I had copyedited some articles, and still had the other half to do. And I was waiting on some articles to get copyedited before I sent them to the typesetter.
Anyway, in the last week I have done more copyediting. And since I was going away for for days and don't have a lap top, I decided to print a few of the articles out. This way I could do the edits with a pen and then enter them into the computer later. And I LOVED it. It's so much faster! Plus, I really get to edit it twice, because I'm looking at everything again when I enter the changes on the computer. But it is a giant waste of paper, so I'm not going to do it all the time. I also received the final two articles for the journal and the authors for the other two articles approved the edits. I also worked on a Professional Bulletin Board, which will list upcoming conferences that pertain to sport finance.
Today I went in and Val is giving me some book chapters to edit, but there's no specific deadline. Oh, and I also have this huge reference section that Matt gave me last week that's in really bad MLA format, so I have that to work on. I also talked to Matt about how the approve book proposals. It's not something I'll deal with in this internship, but they're really good about teaching me all the aspects of the process.
For this week, I sent an email to the typesetter with all but the last two articles. I also sent the last two copyedited articles to the authors for them to approve of. And then I have millions of articles to copyedit... Yikes. haha.
So here are two very similar weeks rolled into one. Really, I don't know what Matt & Val told me last week, and I don't seem to have any notes on it. But I had copyedited some articles, and still had the other half to do. And I was waiting on some articles to get copyedited before I sent them to the typesetter.
Anyway, in the last week I have done more copyediting. And since I was going away for for days and don't have a lap top, I decided to print a few of the articles out. This way I could do the edits with a pen and then enter them into the computer later. And I LOVED it. It's so much faster! Plus, I really get to edit it twice, because I'm looking at everything again when I enter the changes on the computer. But it is a giant waste of paper, so I'm not going to do it all the time. I also received the final two articles for the journal and the authors for the other two articles approved the edits. I also worked on a Professional Bulletin Board, which will list upcoming conferences that pertain to sport finance.
Today I went in and Val is giving me some book chapters to edit, but there's no specific deadline. Oh, and I also have this huge reference section that Matt gave me last week that's in really bad MLA format, so I have that to work on. I also talked to Matt about how the approve book proposals. It's not something I'll deal with in this internship, but they're really good about teaching me all the aspects of the process.
For this week, I sent an email to the typesetter with all but the last two articles. I also sent the last two copyedited articles to the authors for them to approve of. And then I have millions of articles to copyedit... Yikes. haha.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Week 7
I went into my internship today. They still don't have a ton of stuff for me to do, but Val did show me some stuff about cover design. They use a freelance designer, but the process really starts at FIT. Val gets the specs from Andy (the director) as they were specified in the contract. Then she gets online to find photographs that would possibly work. FIT tries to use websites that charge a low fee and let you buy credits like istockphoto.com. There are a lot of issues with copyrighting. Because the internet makes it so easy to download pictures that you don't own, many people think that it's ok. However, even though they are on the internet the photographer owns the rights to that photo. There's also an issue with using a person's image. They must consent to being used as a model. Places like istockphoto have many pictures that you cannot tell who the person is. Val selects a number of photos that she feels if the tone of the book, and then sends those to the designer. The designer then sends back a few different versions of a cover for people at FIT and the author to look over. I will be able to see the cover that they are currently working on throughout its development.
As far as the journal that I am working with goes, two of the four articles are copyedited and have been sent back to the authors to check, as well as a book review. I just sent the third article and an executive interview to Val to copyedit. Dennis (the editor) also sent me the table of contents and said that the fourth and final article will be to me by Friday. So everything is going smoothly on that front.
I'm still working on copyediting articles. I've been a little behind everything in my life the past week, so I honestly haven't gotten much done with it. But this week is looking like it will be slightly less hectic and I should be able to get more of it done.
As far as the journal that I am working with goes, two of the four articles are copyedited and have been sent back to the authors to check, as well as a book review. I just sent the third article and an executive interview to Val to copyedit. Dennis (the editor) also sent me the table of contents and said that the fourth and final article will be to me by Friday. So everything is going smoothly on that front.
I'm still working on copyediting articles. I've been a little behind everything in my life the past week, so I honestly haven't gotten much done with it. But this week is looking like it will be slightly less hectic and I should be able to get more of it done.
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