Joe Shearer

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inVentiv Clinical Solutions

May 2005-Present

Science/Medical Editor

  • Edit regulatory documents for style, formatting, and grammatical issues.

  • Meet and work with team leaders to prepare documents and discuss project work.

  • Attend team meetings regularly.

  • Collaborate with other editors and quality check documents.

  • Advise and instruct other editors on editing process and style and grammar rules.

Trap & Field Magazine

June 2001-May 2005

Editorial Assistant

  • Extensively edited a monthly column authored by a non-professional writer.
  • Collaborated with editors to write and edit monthly stories and features.

  • Worked closely with column writers to meet deadlines and to edit columns on a monthly basis.

  • Increased awareness of youth and collegiate shooting programs.

  • Helped to change focus of magazine from largely shoot results to human interest and features.

INtake Magazine/indy.com The Magazine

January 2004-December 2008

Correspondent/Film Critic/Freelance Writer and Photographer

  • Write weekly movie reviews and recruit and obtain short reviews from “viewer panel.”

  • Compile, edit, and write reviews for “At Home” section, managing panelists and compiling weekly reviews for television shows, DVDs, books, CDs, and video games.

  • Provide photos as needed
  • Wrote weekly movie reviews
  • Received feedback and responded to reader comments.

IUPUI University Writing Center

January 2000-December 2003

Student Tutor

  • Tutored students on a variety of assignments in different fields of study.

  • Collaborated with student and faculty tutors on practices and theories of tutoring.

  • Met with other tutors and discussed tutoring issues

The IUPUI Sagamore

January 2003-May 2004

Staff Writer/Assistant News Editor

  • Wrote weekly news/features; contributed story ideas and assigned and edited stories in award-winning paper. 

EDUCATION

Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana

B.A. English, proficiency certificate in Journalism

 

Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana

Exploratory