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.

Week 8

This week with the Quarterly we are just a few weeks out from the Shofner Lecture and we are now beginning to finalize everything and get everything ready. I continue to do my work editing articles and am noticing that the work I am doing editing the articles is crossing over into my own work and helping me to evolve my writing style through seeing several different styles of writing being produced by professionals in the field. The database continues to grow and I am finding it harder and harder to find more professionals in the field of Florida History. I still maintain my goal of 100 and hope to achieve it by the end of the semester.

Week 7: Working towards the Guest Lecture

This week in the Quarterly I continued to work on editing articles for publication. The more I edit the more I realize that there really isn't a true set of rules as far as writing is concerned. In most regards there is an almost fluid set of concepts that can be formed into whatever particular style the author is writing. This really helps me in regards to my own work because it allows me to see professional writers and the many different styles that exist within the realm of academic writing in the field of History. Also I put together a program for the Florida Historical Quarterly's Jerrell Shofner Lecture Series that is coming up in a few weeks. This is just another aspect of the journal that I am learning how to do. I feel over the last few weeks I have been working to try and improve the accessibility to the Quarterly from the general public and that this will help the Quarterly in the long run.

Week 6

This week in my internship I continued to work on creating abstracts. In addition to this I created a database style organization for the abstracts to be stored in as there are a lot of them. This project is very interesting to me and there are discussions about how it could be used for a mapping project of the Florida Historical Quarterly. There are many different aspects involved in the publication of an academic journal and I am learning more and more about how it works. This internship is benefiting me in so many more ways than I expected.