Since I finished the work I was assigned during my first day of my internship, I worked with another person that heads up the company’s magazine today.  The magazine is both in print and online – the online version being updated much more frequently.  Today I was given an article to write for the online version of the magazine about a new benefit members receive.

I was given some notes written by the person that gave me the project and a general overview of what the article was supposed to establish.  The new benefit basically involves a free technical article members receive every month.  Before I started the project I had to sit down and sort of sketch out what information the reader needed, and how I should structure that information.  What was really interesting about this project, however, was that I had to look at four technical articles and include a brief abstract explaining what they were about in my article.  This basically involved tackling some pretty dense material in an entirely new discourse I knew nothing about!  I actually found this to be a very interesting process, because I’m so entrenched in my own discourse as a student of ‘theory’ that I don’t get that feeling of being a ‘beginner.’  Of course I’m often lost and confused, but this  was a completely different experience.

The article took me quite a while to write, which I was a bit worried about, but after getting it done and going over it with the person I was working with I was happily surprised!  She seemed to like the article, and thought I got it done quite quickly.  Throughout the process I felt like I was working at a comfortable pace – after I figured out what information I needed to include – which bodes well, and supports the fact that I seem to have learned something from academia.  Then again, this also comes from the experience I’ve gained volunteering for local businesses.  That might be an interesting topic to explore, but I’m tired – sorry for the short post folks.