Fall 2005 Internship Opportunities

Applications for the following internships are being accepted from English/Rhetoric majors.

Cites EdTech
Center for Top Down Proteomics
College of Business Communications Office
Community Inquriry Labs
Innocent Words Magazine

Unless otherwise noted below, application materials should include a cover letter, résumé, and writing sample, and should be submitted in 294 English. Students may submit more than one application to increase their odds of being offered a position. The application deadline is Friday, 2 September.

CITES EdTech
Copy Editor and News and Feature Assistant

Interns will help edit and produce online news and feature articles exploring UI faculty’s use of educational technology. This internship is a good match for someone with experience copyediting, and/or producing a yearbook, newspaper, or newsletter. Interns with experience and/or interest in media and educational technology are encouraged to apply. Duties will depend upon the intern's skills and interests, but might include:

• Copyediting content written by other CITES EdTech team members
• Researching and testing educational technologies
• Co-authoring and editing short announcements, news stories, and feature articles
• Photographing and creating illustrations and multimedia elements for articles
• Using Dreamweaver MX to create and revise online documentation

Applicants with strong writing samples will be preferred. Web authoring skills and/or familiarity with any of the following software is desirable but not required: Dreamweaver, Illinois Compass, Adobe PageMaker and Photoshop.

www.cites.uiuc.edu/edtech

Center for Top Down Proteomics
Paid Intern in Technical Writing

The Center for Top Down Proteomics is a newly-formed unit charged with developing software to supportshigh-performance protein identification and characterization techniques for a global user community. We are seeking an intern to write help files and supporting documentation for the ProSight application suite. The successful intern should be able to work independently, but in close collaboration with members of the software development group. The intern should be able to translate verbal demonstrations into clear written descriptions (basically, one or more programmers will show you how something works, and you will write a description that clearly conveys the process to users).

The successful intern will receive, in addition to a professional reference and published material for his or her portfolio, an honorarium of $400 and serious consideration for continued employment (at an hourly rate for the remainder of their undergraduate education at UIUC).

It is expected that the intern will have completed a high-school level chemistry and biology course. Additional coursework, work experience, or career interest in either the sciences or software documentation is a strong plus but is not required.

Application procedure: Interested applicants can e-mail Richard LeDuc at rleduc@uiuc.edu. Please send a short description of your experience and/or interests that may be relevant to this position, and attach a résumé or vita and one or two writing examples. Please copy Dana Carluccio at carlucci@uiuc.edu on this e-mail.

College of Business Communications Office
News and Feature Intern

The Communications Office produces the college magazine, the alumni newsletter, a monthly electronic newsletter (enewsletter), as well as a variety of print and web information.

Our News and Feature intern would work on some or all of the following projects:

• Attend college-sponsored events (e.g., public seminars) and write 300-500
  word summaries (for enewsletter or alumni newsletter)
• Interview alumni to write 300-400 word alumni profiles (for alumni newsletter)
• Interview donors to write 200-600 word donor profiles (for alumni newsletter)
  (The Director of Communications identifies interviewees and makes initial contact)
• Review faculty research and interview faculty to write research summaries
  (for magazine or enewsletter)
• Research and write feature stories for use in the magazine depending on availability

Good writing skills and attention to detail are required. Ability to meet deadlines is necessary. Access to the Internet and electronic mail is necessary. No office space can be provided. Interns must represent the College professionally.

Application procedure: Applications require two writing samples and a résumé; cover letters are not required.

Community Inquiry Laboratories
Technical Writing Intern

This internship is a unique opportunity to join a diverse and distinguished team of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students working to develop Inquiry Labs (iLabs) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS). An iLab is a virtual place where members of a community come together to pool knowledge and work to solve shared problems. A community could be a neighborhood, such as the Paseo Boricua community in Chicago, a college or K-12 classroom, or a research project. iLabs are part of a newly launched Community Informatics Initiative (http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilabs/cii), and are built using an Inquiry Lab Builder (http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu)-- an open-source, web-based tool for collaborative knowledge construction

iLabs are committed to “community," which emphasizes collaborative activity and creating knowledge connected to people's values, history, and lived experiences; “inquiry,” which emphasizes support for open-ended, democratic, participatory engagement in the problem-solving process; and a “laboratory” environment, which indicates a space and resources to bring theory and action together in an experimental and critical manner

An internship with iLabs will include a variety of exciting and challenging tasks and opportunities:

• Developing web- and paper-based tech support materials and Documentation;
• Working with a variety of communities using iLabs
• Getting hands-on training with cutting-edge technology
• Becoming a part of prestigious projects including NSF-funded ones, which will distinguish your résumé
• Participating in weekly Inquiry meetings

Innocent Words Magazine
Music Journalism and Press Relations Interns

Two internships are available with Innocent Words Magazine and Records:

Innocent Words Magazine is offering writing positions to student interns. We are a bi-monthly independent music and art magazine with a strong focus on local, regional, and national music. We offer readers in-depth music reviews, interviews, and assorted art-related features. Student interns will work closely with owner Troy Michael on strict deadlines in completing their writing tasks.

Innocent Words Records houses three bands –Lorenzo Goetz, Terminus Victor, and Triple Whip. We are offering internship positions to students interested in learning the inside workings of an independent record label. We will work closely with interns on press relations for magazines, tours, and promotional matters.