Editor in Chief at Best Minds Associates

 

Here, I had two separate sets of duties.  One was revising old promotional materials, and one was editing new work coming in from interns.  The old promotional materials were being completely overhauled, and while I fixed minor issues like typos I was also attempting to reorder information for greater clarity.  The new work was often on its second revision when it came to me and just needed a few final spelling and grammar fixes.  A challenge I dealt with in this project was that the materials I was editing sometimes dealt with relatively specialized fields I didn't know well, so sometimes fixing unclear sentences required research.

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Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University

 

Here, I edited papers for English Language Learners, and then discussed my edits with them in conferences.  My main challenge here was focusing not exclusively on improving the paper, but also on improving the student's understanding of why the paper needed to be improved.  I found that the experience of focusing on the principles behind my edits like this was actually really a useful experience for me as a writer and editor.

 

 

Intern at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Natural Science and Mathematics

 

While my primary duty here was creating promotional materials, I spent most of my down time during this internship editing the department website, which had a number of issues.  In this case, I was almost exclusively looking for typos and grammar mistakes rather than style or organizational problems.  Nonetheless, I think this task trained my ability to focus and notice small details.