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.