“Brown studied 22 managers, directors, and employees,
drawing on interview data, review of documents, and recorded observations. She
found that organizational values—such as teamwork, commitment to quality services,
and salesmanship—shape writer’s expectations and rhetorical strategies but that
these values often run counter to the values cultivated during the employees’
university education” (Bawarshi, 134). This internship has created multiple writing opportunities in addition to those
at the university level. One main responsibility
that I have is to help educate the public on the sport of Scuba diving through
the blog posts created and written on their
website. Not only do we try to make a social aspect between the current divers
and all of their friends by posting weekly posts on the people who dive with
Extreme Sports Scuba but there are also educational posts once a week to try
and help someone who might be interested in learning the sport of scuba diving.
There is a sense of community that is being built by the blog posts on the
website so that everyone whether they are currently involved with Extreme
Sports Scuba or potential divers.
When entering into this internship, people questioned how I could have an internship at a scuba
diving shop. During this internship, some of the
areas that we’ve learned in school between being able to use the
written word to communicate ideas as well as research have been put to use. This internship isn’t
solely focused around the blog;
that is just one portion of the internship. There are editing documents used within the company as well as working on videos that will be used in educational classroom settings.
By taking the abilities that we’ve learned in school
and applying them to real life it is extremely easy to sell not only yourself
but also these abilities to
potential employers. It would be extremely easy to show off your research and
writing abilities not only to other smaller businesses but to put that
information gathered at the collegiate level to use for larger fortune 500
companies. The ability to research as well as communicate via the written word
is what many future
forward thinking employers are
looking for when it comes to a professional technical writer. The main
difference between this particular internship and a position is the
context the writing is about; otherwise the
principles are exactly the same between the different fields of employment.
Bawarshi, Anis and Mary Jo Reiff. “Genre Research in
Workplace and Professional Contexts.” Genre.
Date unknown. Print.
