Week 14 - Always Something New

This week with the Florida Historical Quarterly something new came up that I had never dealt with before. Within the world of academic journals there are rules and regulations revolving around publications. We had an issue with the upcoming issue of the Quarterly in regards to publications. This experience showed me the problems that a journal can have with regards to the submitters and their responsibilities. It also reminds me of how important it is to ensure that your work that you publish to a journal is completely your own and not published anywhere else.

Week 13

This week with the Florida Historical Quarterly I continued my editing work. I have compiled so many more names for the database of Florida Historians and am very excited to see where the database takes us and the help it can give to those looking at doing a Florida topic masters thesis or PhD dissertation. Overall this experience with the Quarterly is helping expand my knowledge of my field immensely.

Week 15/16 - The End

As things come to a close in my internship with the Florida Historical Quarterly I have been putting together a PowerPoint to show all of the things that I have learned in my internship. I am so grateful for this opportunity that I have been give and I am also grateful for all of the things that I have learned through it that I could not have gotten anywhere else.  The proof editing skills I have gained will help me in my writing as I go on to a graduate program. The other skills I learned will also help me as I continue my academic career. I am very grateful to Dr. Lester and Dr. Murphree for all of their advice and help throughout this process

Week 12

This week in my Internship with the Florida Historical Quarterly I did my usual work as well as a few new projects for the Quarterly. I was given an article that had been published in a newly released book that I had to read and compare to that of a manuscript submitted by the same author to the Quarterly and compare the two to see how closely they were related. This was a great exercise not only because it helped me to evolve my skills as an editor, but also because the information was relative to a project I am currently working on myself. Also, I started work on compiling a list of State journals and their author. This project has proven to be slightly more difficult that I initially anticipated, but I have made much progress.

Week 11 - Things Die Down

This week in my Internship with the Florida Historical Quarterly things died down significantly from the events of the previous weeks and I was able to get back to focusing my work in my normal duties. I worked on editing an article and expanded the Database even more getting closer and closer to my goal of 100 scholars.

Week 10 - The Big Event

This week was the Schofner Lecture put on by the Florida Historical Quarterly. The event went extremely well. Even though the extensive involvement I had in this event was not conventional to an Internship in an academic journal I got to spend time with the guest lecturer and better understand how guest presentations work and are produced. The knowledge I gained from working on this project was unconventional, but something I could not have gotten anywhere else. In addition I worked on Editing articles in the later days of the week, however the majority of my time was devoted to that lecture.

Week 9

This week with the Quarterly I worked on pulling everything together with Dr. Murphree and Dr. Lester for the lecture this coming Monday. I am sure it will be a very successful event and we spent most of the week in preparation for it. I continued to do my other work for the Quarterly as well, continuing to edit articles and work on extending the database.