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 Political Science Print and Media Editorial teams may include the following:
- Prepping manuscript for copyediting and author revision for
college political science textbooks like Essentials of
Comparative Politics and Cases in Comparative Politics
- Checking proof pages for consistency in style for college
political science textbooks like American
Politics Today and We the People
- Assisting with digital media resources for college political
science textbooks such as We the People, American
Politics Today, American Government, and state
government books such as Governing Texas and Governing California.
- Reviewing manuscripts and copyedited versions of digital products
such as Lecture PowerPoints, Instructor’s Manuals, test banks, and
InQuizitive, Norton’s adaptive quizzing tool
- Ensuring eBook content and design aligns with the print book as
well as the functionality of eBook specific features such as interactivity
- Conducting data and photo research for comparative politics
textbooks
- Creating, formatting, and editing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
files to begin, work on, and complete projects and office duties