Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Intern issues
So, I guess it's time for me to jump on the complaint wagon. Actually, the internship is fine, but it's the people that I'm working with that I have an issue with. I have been working on my paper on extremism for about two weeks now and my partner and I decided to exchange our work to see what the other is doing. She has done much more than me in terms of length and graphics, but her content is questionable. First of all, she is not much of a writer. She doesn't know how to write a formal article or paper. Honestly, it sounds very high-school / undergrad level. It just doesn't sound professional enough to publish for me. Granted, it is a rough draft and I can probably help her out a bit, but I don't want to have to rewrite the entire thing. The other issue is what she is writing about. She opens the paper with a brief history of Islam in the US. According to her "research" there is evidence of mosques in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico that date to 700-800 AD. I found the website and it's obviously a very pro Islam group. The idea that the first thing Mohammad did after establishing the first Caliphate was to send people to the New World who settled there and taught the natives to worship Islam is ludicrous. Even if they are from 800 AD or 1000AD it isn't tenable. I certainly don't want to share credit for this paper if it is full of conspiracy theory type content. However, I am also fully aware that Stevie won't let that happen. If he read it at this point, he would have a field day with it. He is ruthless when giving us shit, and will probably make fun of her. In order to avoid this and any potential backlash I can face from it, I asked her to take it out because it isn't a proven source. Most of the rest of it is ok, but needs more information in it and less graphics. She works really hard, I have to give her that, but she really needs some direction and isn't too interested in my commentary when I try to give it to her. If it continues, I may ask Stevie to give her something else to do and I'll finish it myself. The other option would be to let her do a lot of research, write it up, and then I will fix it after we finish. That will take some time and a lot of rewriting, but if I do it by myself, I don't think that I will get it done in time. It has taken me 2 weeks to do the first section and I don't think I can do the other 4 or 5 in time without her. Even then, I may have to do some work on it when I get home, mostly because I just don't trust anyone else to do it for me.
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