“Did you know there’s a website students are using to write papers for them?” my dad asked me over dinner …
There I was, a sophomore walking into my second PWID class. I took a seat in the front row next …
In my opinion, writing is THE most important skill we can learn. Life nowadays depends on it. Whether it’s writing …
Late on the night of June 11, 2022, I desperately searched through Cedarville’s undergraduate course guide. I was considering switching …
If you had asked me last summer about the classes I was planning to take in the fall, you would …
“Wow, this made me cry in my car on lunch break. Thank you for this. I don’t feel very beautiful …
“Did you know there’s a website students are using to write papers for them?” my dad asked me over dinner …
In my opinion, writing is THE most important skill we can learn. Life nowadays depends on it. Whether it’s writing …
“Wow, this made me cry in my car on lunch break. Thank you for this. I don’t feel very beautiful …
You can hardly type fast enough as your fingers fly across the keys. Your thoughts compose sentences rapidly, and you …
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.
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.
One of the definitions of the word create is “to produce or bring about by a course of action or …
Graduation looms a few months in my future. Like a swarm of vultures circling a carcass, people shriek the daunting …
“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.
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?
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.
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.
There I was, a sophomore walking into my second PWID class. I took a seat in the front row next …
Late on the night of June 11, 2022, I desperately searched through Cedarville’s undergraduate course guide. I was considering switching …
I first came to Cedarville in the fall of 2021 with a declared major in Communication, but I had no …
I vividly remember the emotions that come with being a senior in high school. Probably because of the number of …
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!
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.