Sarah Wright's Online

Education

Purdue, West Lafayette, IN 2009

Concentration in Professional Writing

Minors in History and German

GPA: 3.21

Experience

• Work Study through Purdue University (2007)

Work study with Almost Home Humane Society of Tippecanoe County

Approached area apartment complexes to deteremine their pet policies and then took that information and designed two brochures with a partner

Personally, created the designs with my partner's and employer's approval and used Adobe Photoshop to create two brochures

Completed the Photohop aspects of project

• Community Service through Purdue University (2007)

Community Service Project to further promote 'Words on the Go,' a non-profit organization

Worked with a large group to create 'Friends of Words on the Go'

Helped plan future events aimed to increase flow submissions

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2006)

Participant in Technological and Pedagogy Showcase Professional Writing

Completed research on various types of video-conferencing and wrote a portion of a 20 page paper and PowerPoint

Presented the PowerPoint at the showcase, where as a group, we fielded various questions, regarding the technology

Technical Skills

• Experienced with: Exprienced with: Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X
• Proficient in: Abode InDesign CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft PowerPoint

Course Work

• Studied German for eight years
• Focused on European History from Medieval Times to Modern times
• Hard-worker and used to working with groups or individually
• Good Researcher
• Completed several website
• Taken the following Professional Writing courses: Intro. to Research for Professional Writers, Intro. to Professional Writing, Computer-Aided Publishing, and Multimedia Writing