Sarah Wright's Resume

Education

Purdue University, 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

  • 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

    • Activities

  • Creative Roleplaying (2006-2007)
  • Currently writing a novel

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