"Curriculum and Requirements | Editing, Media, and Writing

• Editing Internship (ENC4942)"

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Seeing that, I was feeling all the more motivated to gain some real-world experience in the field, despite my freshmen status. I applied to numerous instructional design internships across the nation and was faced with equally numerous rejections. On a whim, I cold emailed a professor who was listed as a contact for an outdated Internship Opportunity document. Turns out, she is now retired as a professor emeritus, but was nonetheless working on a project. 

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Mary Stewart was writing a college success textbook, "Being, Thinking, and Doing". She wasn't looking for interns...but she was looking for reviewers. I happened to have the demographics that matched what she was looking for: current student, peer instructor, English major. Well, I wasn't a professor nor an expert, but she wanted my input and I was happy to give it.

All in all, I reviewed her (at the time) current 145-page draft and sent in three multimodal documents with a total of 5.7k+ words, offering my insight on the content of each chapter. She was very grateful and we kept working together on "my" portion of the internship: the interactive exercises.