Stockton University Internship Reflective Essay & Portfolio Cover Letter

Description

Wrtng & Computers: Semester long project with a group and presentation: working as a team and independently: collaborative.

Bus & Org Wrtg: semester long project with a group and presentation about creating a new business for the university. New place to eat for students after dark when everything is closed.

Technical Writing: semester long project with group and presentation to analyze the university’s website in terms of usability and efficiency.

Strateg Wtg Wrk: semester long project with a group and presentation. Worked with a group and our group worked with other groups in the class because we were working on the same project to help redesign the writing center. No hard labor involved.

Portfolio Cover Letter: This is a 1-2 page, typed, single-spaced cover letter that provides an overview of your experience in the business and technical writing (BTW) minor. The letter can discuss the following:
- Assignments that helped you improve your writing or editing skills
  1. Every class I took for the minor:

WRT 200: long essays with peer review editing during class. I did a paper on the cinematic camera angles of an episode of Breaking Bad where they have to set up a heist to steal from a train.

Critical Writing

ENG 395: internship started 2 months ago. I am an intern at The Pop Topic (Blog) for course credit. I write 2-3 articles per week around 400 words each. Then I have to add headings, a featured cover image that is exactly 1200 x 627 using canva for resizing. Then I need to add two twitter posts related to the article. Then I need to do SEO keyword analysis for the article until the SEO is 100% optimized.

Internship

Concepts/ideas that you used in your classes, internship, and/or other work (particularly if you used a concept in more than one area)
1. The concept of mapping out a paper before beginning helped a lot.
2. Peer reviewing papers during class helps.
3. Working in groups all the time.
4. I learned how to analyze website efficiency, usability, accessibility in ENG 320 and used the concepts in ENG 375 analyzing the efficiency of the writing centers site.
Writing process(es) in BTW classes
1. Drafting, working independently and as a group collaboratively.
Collaborative experience(s) in BTW classes
1. Every class was working with groups besides the first and last classes. I have the list of projects above next to the classes I took.
Other, related details that aren’t listed here (check with your faculty advisor)

Internship Reflection: This is a 3-4 page, typed, single-spaced analysis of your internship experience. It should include the following:
- Context for your internship (info about location, job duties, etc.)
  1. Location is remote – working from home on laptop. Keeping in contact with my team and boss through Slack team discussion and direct messaging.
- Context for your writing samples (initial assignment, writing process, etc.)
  1. Topics need to be news related. I have done a lot relating to coronavirus. I get to pick topics that I feel are good. I do not need approval. I research topic ideas and go with the ones that I like the best. A lot of research is involved. Fact checked. Initial assignment: there was none, I do 2-3 articles per week for 6 months, am 2 months in, 4 to go. Writing process takes long.
  2. First three topics I did articles on: 1) When Will The Coronavirus Pandemic End? 2) How Ultraviolet Light Machines are fighting against the COVID19 Coronavirus 3) Exercising Outdoors With a Face Mask
  3. Writing process i put above next to the ENG 395 row.
- Next steps (what will you take from this internship to your next job?)
  1. I will take the work ethic I learned with me. (self starting) (working with no supervision or updating)
  2. SEO tactics that I learned.
  3. Creativity