For last week:
The catalog is finished and we should see a copy next week or the week after. That is good considering this serves as the Spring Catalog. Holdups had occured because of pricing changes, title changes, and general uncertainty about the dates certain projects would be completed and ready to roll off the printer. I recieved a copy of the invoice from Jamie, the designer, and realized that that is an OK field to work in.
I've started editing a few articles, to stay ahead of the game and schedule, of another journal. This journal is the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF). One of the articles was just a book review and took less than an hour. One of the articles was written by an editor for another journal, so was already in fairly good form. The last article required the most work, but was by far the most interesting. The authors had developed a test to determine the criteria professional golfers used in choosing in which tournaments each should play. I don't even like golf very much, but the article was actually interesting, as it outlined and tested various skills a golfer possessed as well as psychological factors (including the Tiger Woods phenomenon).
This is a part of my work this semester that I have really come to enjoy. In working, I have learned about things I had no knowledge of but, apparently, did have some interest in. I have read a lot about a wide array of general sports topics addressing the psychological, physical, social, and business of sport. I think that is one of the great benefits of doing the type of work I have this semester (that is, if the editor/proofer enjoys learning about new things). It is an opportunity not many receive. Especially working at FIT, which produces academic journals, is great for this because even if a person already knows a lot about a subject, these journals only exist to introduce new ideas to the field.
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Again, you're consistently producing interesting, insightful reflections on the field in which you're working. As you're no doubt learning, it's good for a professional writer to have a macro-level perspective on the industry in which he or she is working (academic publishing, in your case) as well as at least some interest in the topics of the texts he or she is working with (sports marketing, in your case). And since you're discussing the field of academic journals and their purpose within the field of academics (to introduce new knowledge, new questions, new ideas into the field), here's a very recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the future of journals in the humanities: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i29/29a00102.htm
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