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PWID Through The Eyes of a Freshman

February 20, 2023

PWID Through The Eyes of a Freshman

Late on the night of June 11, 2022, I desperately searched through Cedarville’s undergraduate course guide. I was considering switching my major and was curious to see what else Cedarville offered. While scrolling, I landed on the Professional Writing and Information Design (PWID) section. Every class looked fascinating, and I was eager to learn more

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Embracing the Challenge: Professional Editing

February 1, 2023

Embracing the Challenge: Professional Editing

If you had asked me last summer about the classes I was planning to take in the fall, you would have received an eager response about how excited I was to take Professional Editing. My heart burst with joy at just the thought of being in a class focused on editing.  Editing was one of

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Serving Others Through Writing

December 12, 2022

Serving Others Through Writing

“Wow, this made me cry in my car on lunch break. Thank you for this. I don’t feel very beautiful these days, as my medical condition is worsening. That poem is more encouraging to me than you know.” I received this message from a reader of my blog for Christian women on Instagram. I’ve never

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Joy in Writing

November 27, 2022

Joy in Writing

You can hardly type fast enough as your fingers fly across the keys. Your thoughts compose sentences rapidly, and you can’t wait to get everything out on the screen. All the while, there is a big grin across your face. And when you finally sit back to read what you’ve written, you gleam with satisfaction.  

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What Is Information Design?

November 19, 2022

What Is Information Design?

Every time someone asks me the classic college question, I prepare myself for their inevitable follow-up question. The conversation usually goes like this: “So, what’s your major?” “Professional Writing and Information Design,” I reply.  “Wow, that’s cool! But—what does Information Design mean?”  And it’s a valid question. Most people understand what Professional Writing is, but

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Latest Articles

PWID Through The Eyes of a Freshman

Late on the night of June 11, 2022, I desperately searched through Cedarville’s undergraduate course guide. I was considering switching …

Embracing the Challenge: Professional Editing

If you had asked me last summer about the classes I was planning to take in the fall, you would …

Serving Others Through Writing

“Wow, this made me cry in my car on lunch break. Thank you for this. I don’t feel very beautiful …

Joy in Writing

You can hardly type fast enough as your fingers fly across the keys. Your thoughts compose sentences rapidly, and you …

What Is Information Design?

Every time someone asks me the classic college question, I prepare myself for their inevitable follow-up question. The conversation usually …

User-Centered Design in Action

I’m studying to be a writer, so I didn’t expect to be taking classes about audience analysis. But through a …

Writing

Serving Others Through Writing

“Wow, this made me cry in my car on lunch break. Thank you for this. I don’t feel very beautiful …

Joy in Writing

You can hardly type fast enough as your fingers fly across the keys. Your thoughts compose sentences rapidly, and you …

The Woes of Writing

I wish it came easy. I wish I could sit down and write. I wish there wasn’t always a battle. It was only a few months before I graduated high school that God made it perfectly clear to me PWID was where He wanted me.

Making Sentences into Music

My editing internship at an economics office this summer required that I dabble in free market philosophy. I had been trying to read one meaty article, scratching through the pages with underlines and question marks and brief abstractions of the text. But what I found at the end of this scholarly essay was a line of music, of rhythm, timbre, pitch.

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Careers

Creativity in PWID: Claire the Storyteller

One of the definitions of the word create is “to produce or bring about by a course of action or …

Why I Want to be an Editor

Graduation looms a few months in my future. Like a swarm of vultures circling a carcass, people shriek the daunting …

A Love for Words and A Home in Professional Writing

“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.” I’d heard this quote a million times but never felt like applied to me. I lived with the fear that I wasn’t on the path to doing what I loved. After many mental breakdowns, four major changes, and a lot of creative projects that I’m proud of, I’m happy to say that in three weeks I will graduate and find a job where I can do what I love and never have to work a day in my life. All because of PWID.

My Internship Was Not a Good Fit, and I’m SO Thankful For It

When I first came into PWID, the whole internship process seemed mystical, terrifying, and like a very “grown up” thing to do for someone who wasn’t even sure she was on the right career path. I kind of looked forward to it, because it sounded like something that would make me feel like a real professional and help me grow my skills, but I was mostly filled with a sense of dread—how would I find an internship? Would I like it? Would my classes truly prepare me for the experience?

How I Landed a Job That I Love

Naomi Leak is a 2018 Professional Writing and Information Design graduate. She recently started working for Sparkbox, a web design and development company located in Dayton, Ohio. In this interview with Naomi, she describes her position as Communication Specialist and explains how she landed the job. She also offers advice for current PWID students who are preparing for internships and full-time jobs after graduation.

Better Than I Could Have Written It

People always talk about “doing what you love” or “finding your passion.” Poetic and valid, yes, but the process is not exactly one-size-fits-all. You can’t discover your passion from a Google search. I came to Cedarville undeclared—I had no idea what to do with myself. I wasn’t overly worried, but I was on the edge of my proverbial seat, waiting for what the next chapter in my story might be about. Turns out, the Lord wrote it better than I ever could have.

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Student Experience

PWID Through The Eyes of a Freshman

Late on the night of June 11, 2022, I desperately searched through Cedarville’s undergraduate course guide. I was considering switching …

Afraid of Switching Majors? So Was I

I first came to Cedarville in the fall of 2021 with a declared major in Communication, but I had no …

Searching for Belonging

I vividly remember the emotions that come with being a senior in high school. Probably because of the number of …

First Impressions

Sitting in Tyler 102, I eagerly waited for Intro to Professional Writing, my first Professional Writing and Information Design (PWID) class, to begin. Students filed in, some greeting the professor, and took their seats at the rows of tables facing the projector. Excitement cascaded through me. This is it; I’m finally here!

From Clueless to Competent

After trying out two different majors, my four-year plan was a mess. At this point, no one looking at my schedule could tell what I wanted to do with my future—and neither could I. My dream of one day looking forward to the “big kid” world of a stable job seemed to slip away into hoping I could make it to graduation changing my major less than ten times.

Stepping Towards Confidence

As I prepare to submit the first draft of my portfolio, I can’t help but take a look at what I’ve become. Before coming to Cedarville, I was a nervous wreck: I couldn’t handle the responsibility of becoming a full-grown adult. I’m doing all sorts of things that I had never pictured myself doing.

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