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 print and media sociology and cultural anthropology team may
include the following:
- Assisting with the preparation and review of chapter manuscripts
and digital media resources for college sociology and cultural
anthropology textbooks such as Cultural Anthropology (4e),
Essentials of Cultural Anthropology (4e), Gender
(3e), You May Ask Yourself (8e), Introduction to
Sociology (13e), Essentials of Sociology (9e)
- Reviewing textbook chapter proofs during different stages of
production for style consistency
- Assisting with the preparation of manuscripts and creating art
logs and manuscripts for new editions
- Identifying revised content in new editions and indicating them in
coded spreadsheets
- Editing, organizing, and formatting media materials such as test
bank manuscripts, lecture PowerPoints, dynamic data figures, and
Norton Teaching Tools
- Reviewing InQuizitive questions and using a coded spreadsheet to
log questions that need changes
- Checking for copyright infringement postings of the test bank questions
- Executing marketing projects on a case-by-case basis