Week 4, Day 1

Welcome to Week 4! This week you’ll work on your second newsletter, hear from a nationally known post-traumatic headache expert and clinician, and continue to work on your projects.

There is one task to do today:

  • Write up your newsletter synopsis. Comment on your topic in the resource doc and then put your name down in the relevant category on the final doc. Because there were so many updates for this newsletter, we’ll have you start by working off of the update document. If you can’t find something to write about in that document, we’ll also be linking last week’s resource doc.

    • If you wrote two synopses last newsletter (Trevor, Elena, Elliot), just choose one topic this week. If you wrote one synopsis (Will, Shelly, Cassidy, Caroline), you’ll be choosing two topics this week.

    • Remember we’ll be having a peer feedback session for your drafts on Tuesday, so please bring a draft that you think would benefit from feedback from your fellow interns. If you’re writing two topics, you can bring both drafts but only one is necessary for the session.

      • It’s also a good idea to run your draft through Grammarly at least one before the peer feedback session. One of the software’s cool features is tone detection, which you can read about here. You shouldn’t be concerned about Grammarly’s interpretation of your tone, as we’re often writing about complex and difficult subject matter. Rather, we thought to highlight it for your own personal writing.

This week:

  • Continue working through the materials for this week’s speaker, Dr. Nathan Zasler, Wednesday, July 8, at 12:00 pm.

  • Continue to work on your project as time allows.

    • For those of you working on website pages, you’ll have administrative access to our Squarespace site as of Monday. This is a lot of responsibility, so please reach out to us if there are any changes/processes that you are unsure about.

      • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page. Work on a (disabled) duplicate or new page.

      • If you are updating a page, or want to make a new page based off of the structure of an existing one, you should create a duplicate page. To do this, click on the gear next to the page name in the list - this will open a settings window where you’ll have an option to “Duplicate Page” (scroll down in the default tab of the window). Once you’ve created your duplicate, re-open the settings on that page and disable it; that way the page will not be a part of the website until you’re ready to activate it. You should also do this if you are working from scratch on a page.

      • Squarespace unfortunately has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back.

    • Watch the 2015 film Concussion, with Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. We will have a discussion group about the film this Friday.

      • The film is on Amazon Prime, plus a few other places on the internet. Eloïse also found it for free at this link, although you have to disable your ad blocker in order to view it. We will reimburse you for the cost of watching the film if you don’t have an Amazon Prime subscription — just DM Malayka or Conor on Slack.