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EDITOR FOR STARTING LINES MAGAZINE
Starting Lines is a magazine based at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The organization is tasked with assembling an anthology of student-authored work, featuring exemplary essays from student-authors in various entry-level courses. I have had the privilege to read and edit a range of genres in this role: from a sensory scene of violent Anime to a cookbook-styled recipe for an effective activist. This role tested the limits of my flexibility and versatility, and having survived the endeavor, I can proudly attest to my confidence in copyediting for the purpose of clarity and content. In this process, my greatest priority is to achieve such improvements while preserving the integrity of authors’ writing and respecting their stylistic choices.
TECHNICAL WRITER AND EDITOR IN RESEARCH
My role as a research assistant to Dr. Spencer-Rodgers, a health and cross-cultural psychologist, has afforded me with the skillset necessary for meticulous proofreading. My mentorship is spent diligently reading manuscripts (searching for factual errors or inaccuracy in statistical analyses), writing extensive reviews of previous literature in the field, and copyediting manuscripts under review for publication. Additionally, this work incited my co-authorship to a study investigating a Health Psychology course's impact on student wellbeing, pending approval from the academic journal Psychology of Learning and Teaching (PLAT). These experiences have not only enhanced my professional writing ability, but also solidified my grasp on the mechanics of grammar and syntax in the context of academia.
LEAD AUTHOR AND RESEARCH MANAGER
I recently started working on a new academic journal article in the field of cross-cultural psychology. Under the supervision of Dr. Julie Spencer-Rodgers, I am leading a team of four female researchers in a qualitative investigation of the effect that dialectical coping may have had on individuals' experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic and our resultant lockdown. Dialectical thinking refers to a person's mechanism for processing information and is broken down into three parts: tolerance of contradiction (e.g., comfort with simultaneously having positive and negative emotions toward one's partner); cognitive change (e.g., consistency in one's values or beliefs across time and context); behavioral change (e.g., consistency in one's actions through time and situation). Dialectical thinking is strongly associated with East-Asian culture. Our research intends to discern the positive and negative psychological implications of the COVID-19 lockdown, and ascertain whether dialectical coping may have played a role in driving these effects.