I’m taking this class for the informatics minor and advanced composition general education requirement. I’m excited to take this class and develop my writing skills across media. I’d like to consider myself a skilled writer, and I’m excited to see what else I learn in this class!
A little about me…
My name is Jacob Singleton, and I’m a senior studying economics and informatics.
After graduation, I hope to work at a consulting firm to combine business, design, and tech in a way that helps companies and consumers.
I started off at the University of Illinois without much direction. After joining Illinois Business Consulting freshman year, the nation’s largest student-run consulting firm, I realized consulting was a great way to help companies while continuing to express my creative side. Since then, I’ve been a consultant, senior consultant, and project manager, and I recently became the internal manager.
Around the same time, I joined The Daily Illini. I’m not quite sure why I joined, but I’m very glad I did. I started off as a designer, using software like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create graphics and laying out pages. I moved up to design editor then managing editor for online, so I’ve had lots of experience working with writers to tell their stories in a way where people want to read. This and the following video are two of my favorite “writing” things I’ve done (the latter of which the Society of Professional Journalists awarded best online news reporting in 2017 for region 5):
Thanks for sharing, Jacob. It sounds like you already have a ton of experience with writing across media. I hope you can gain a bit more knowledge throughout the semester. Please feel free to share software/platforms that you have used in the past and to share your experiences with them with me and the others.