Though this post is a little late, I feel that it is important to write it anyhow. This past friday
I spent the day working on my project. Also I found that as things currently stand, the freshly re-qritten parts of the department's wep page should be going online within the next weeks time. Also I spent a good deal of time working on handouts for Dr. Steele's Soca 199 handouts. Unfortunately I finish re-writing the Criminology Handout, hopefully I will be able to finish the Sociology handout before they're due around 12:30 tomorrow afternoon. If not, she said the old ones would suffice for one more day.
Futhermore another difficulty I have come across deals with the group meetings hosted over e-campus chat. I feel that they are overly long, drawn out, and that because of this they are a waste of my time. Hopefully I will be able to join one of the groups that meets in a face-to-face manner, which would make me alot more comfortable with these meetings.
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While it's okay to use your blog in part to record the work that you've been doing in your internship, I'd like you to include much more descriptive detail of the specific writing, research, and editing activities you've been doing to complete these projects. For example, what specific kinds of writing, research, or editing have you had to do in order to compose these different brochures? What had you had to do to get materials ready for the web (in ways that are different than how you'd prepare them for print materials)?
Also, you've now made your feelings known about the online meetings on two different occasions, both when you put an abrupt end to the first meeting and here where you describe them as "a waste of time." Please do maintain a sense of professionalism about all aspects of the course, and please do keep a sense of perspective about the first week's meetings--I was unable to get to Morgantown that day, but we will be able to meet in person for meetings #2, #3, and #4.
Please come to these three remaining meetings with a more professional attitude and an openness to the possibility that your classmates could provide some learning opportunities for you, both in terms of addressing concerns related to the professional writing workplace and in terms of preparing the various materials required for the internship. Moreover, come with an openness to the possibility that there are important things that your colleagues could learn from you, as well.
If you have any remaining concerns about the meetings as the semester progresses, please display more rhetorical awareness and speak to me directly about these concerns rather than airing them in a public forum such as your blog.
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