Week 1, Day 4
Welcome to the fourth day of your externship with Concussion Alliance! We are excited to work with you and to get to know you better. Thank you for joining us.
We are looking forward to helping you get up to speed on your concussion knowledge and then up and running on your projects this week. You’ll have concussion curriculum every day, and we’ll spend time on remote teamwork and shared learning. You’ll also start doing background research on your projects and learn about our process in preparation for writing for the newsletter next week.
Our first expert guest speaker is Dan Fogarty Today; Dan is a concussion patient and advocate, as well as a CA community member. We’ll also be having a discussion on Shaken Brain tomorrow.
There are two tasks to do today
Make sure you have at least one question for Dan’s talk at 11am PST today
Take a look through these discussion questions for our group discussion on chapters 1-3 of Shaken Brain tomorrow
Educational Resources
1. Newsletter prep: Julian Szieff Newsletter Science Writing Module
Today you’ll start preparing to write for the newsletter! This summer, leadership team members Julian Szieff and Galen Moller created educational modules to help get new writers up to speed with our methodology and style. Julian’s module focuses on reading, processing, and aptly synopsizing the kinds of research we write about for the newsletters. If you’re experience with reviewing scientific literature this may be heavily review, but Julian does a fantastic job keeping things interesting regardless.
2. Newsletter prep: Reading some prior newsletters
After watching Julian’s presentation, we’d like you to critically read two newsletters, keeping the principles he outlines in mind.
This newsletter put out by our volunteer writers on June 15th
This newsletter, which is the first written by our summer interns on July 4th
Pay close attention to the stylistic similarities and differences between synopses.
3. Read chapter 3 of Shaken Brain (p. 65-93)