Job Description:
Who we are
Founded in 1923, W. W. Norton is the oldest and largest independent
and employee-owned publishing house, publishing works of Nobel
laureates, master teachers, and Pulitzer Prize winners. For almost a
century, Norton has been dedicated to achieving a common goal: to
bring to readers and students enduring fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry, as well as high-quality textbooks and digital learning tools.
About the internship
W. W. Norton is looking for interns to participate in our twelve-week
internship program. Our internship program provides participants with
an engaging, supportive, and hands-on learning experience in
publishing that includes brown bag lunch sessions and networking
within the intern class. Your work if you become a Norton intern with
the chemistry team may include the following:
- Researching market data of competing texts by enrollment numbers
- Organizing data of adopters and potential reviewers for projects
such as our General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry book
- Analyzing and compiling survey respondent data for our General
Chemistry titles
- Updating art logs to reflect current manuscripts for our Organic
Lab manual and others
- Reading and editing submissions for the Teach the Mechanism blog
- Curating posts for the discipline’s social media and increasing engagement
- Reviewing animations, producing thumbnails, and copyediting closed
captioning for Organic Lab technique videos
- Assisting in the review process of Smartwork, our online homework
system, for rolling updates to Organic Chemistry
- Producing art and updating metadata for homework questions
- Implementing learning objectives to maintain consistency across
media resources
- Learning the basics of copyediting and proofreading