Week 2, Day 2
Welcome to Day 2 of the second week with us! We enjoyed discussing all ideas from yesterday’s project start-up meetings and are excited to teach you accessible writing skills through our Newsletter Workshop, and have our first discussion on Shaken Brain this week!
Our synchronous meeting today is our expert guest speaker Dr. Stephen Broglio at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.
On Wednesday, we will have our Discussion on Shaken Brain Chapters 1-4 at at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET and the Newsletter Writing Workshop at 1:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET.
As a reminder, Thursday is the 4th of July, so there will not be any synchronous meetings. We will regroup with a Social Hour on Friday at at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.
Start-of-day Procedure
Check Slack for new messages
Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal
Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content
Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources
Check in with your PM on Slack
Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack
Instructions for Synopsis Writing Practice:
Read the example newsletters to understand the structure, key details, and the style for the synopses.
Read the original study and the supplementary documents (Option 1 or Option 2).
Read the style guide posted in the newsletter curriculum. This will be helpful and serve as a blueprint for writing the synopsis.
Compose a 150-250 word synopsis of the study
* Don’t worry about getting everything right on this practice. We are intentionally giving you guys lots of freedom, so enjoy writing this practice synopsis!
There are 3 (new) tasks to do today:
Sign up for the Practice Newsletter Workshop. The link to sign up here.
Practice writing a synopsis!
Prepare for our discussion on the first 4 chapters of Shaken Brain. The questions to the discussion can be accessed here. We had a great discussion session last Friday and are looking forward to hearing your thoughts again on Wednesday!
Curriculum for Today
We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.
Unit 4: Learn to write for the Concussion Update Newsletter
Read the Concussion Update Style Guide in preparation for writing for the Concussion Update newsletter. (~5 min)
Read three newsletters (~1h):
Written by regular team of volunteers: https://www.concussionalliance.org/newsletter/2023/3/9/neuroprotective-properties-of-cbd-may-support-tbi-recovery
The first newsletter written by last Winter’s cohort of interns: https://www.concussionalliance.org/newsletter/2023/12/15/new-diagnostics-and-imaging-lead-to-greater-understanding-of-concussions
Read research for newsletter workshop in preparation for writing your own synopsis on one of these studies (there will be a sign-up sheet to ensure even distribution of writers for the workshop on Wednesday) (~1h)