Week 7, Feb. 21

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Submitted by David Blakesley on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 09:24

Tuesday, February 21

Due Today

  • Submit Step 3 of the Technical Editing Project (edited chapter of Richardson book, stylesheet) to the DropBox folder. The edited chapter should have a new file name (with the editors' initials appended to the original file name). Your stylesheet should be named "stylesheet-initials.docx" (substitute both editors' initials at the end).
    • Notes on the stylesheet: Because I will need to compile the stylesheet into one document, please put all your entries at the end of the default stylesheet so that I can see them clearly. If you already placed them somewhere else in the document, just cut-and-paste them at the end. (Thanks!)

On Your Own

  • Complete Resume Project Across Media by Thursday.
  • Continue work on Step 4 of the Technical Editing Project (submission notes). Directions provided in class today.

Directions for Submission Notes (Technical Editing Project): By Thursday, post a blog response that provides the following information and responds to the following. (Tag: editing submission notes):

  1. Usernames of Editors (including yours):
  2. Author and Title of KB Journal article edited:
  3. Chapter or Section Edited in Richardson Manuscript:
  4. Describe some of the challenges or questions that came up as you edited the KB Journal article.
  5. Describe some of the challenges or questions that came up as you edited the Richardson chapter or section.
  6. Name two "rules" that you now know that you didn't know before.
  7. What's one thing you learned about the tools used in technical editing?
  8. Describe one thing you've learned about the practice of technical editng.
  9. At the end of your submission notes, provide a link to your "Memo of Understanding" post.

Thursday, February 23

Due Today

  • Submission Notes: After submitting the deliverables for 1-3, you should post a blog response to the set of questions (on the calendar, to be provided Tuesday, Feb. 21) about the editorial process you followed for each phase of this project. (Tag: editing submission notes)
  • The Resume Project Across Media is due by the end of the day.

Directions for Submitting the Resume Project

Submit all deliverables of your resume project collected under one blog post (Title: Resume Project; Tag: resume project) with submission notes that respond to these questions:

  1. What was the most challenging aspect of your work on this project?
  2. Describe how your resume changed across the three media/interfaces? How did the move to a different media or interface affect the resume's design? How did the content change?
  3. Describe any technical challenges you faced and how you solved them.
  4. In what ways are your resumes well suited to the rhetorical situation of your present or future position search?

Collect the deliverables in this post by a) attaching documents (e.g., in PDF format, with a clearly identifiable file name: username_print_resume.pdf), providing links to the document(s) on the Web, or explaining how the deliverable can be accessed (e.g., you turn in a material version).

Group Activities

  • If time allows, we'll discuss Project 3, the Collaborative Documentation Project.

Project Log for Week 6: Projects Nearing Completion

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Submitted by cpencek on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:13

My creative resume is now complete and ready. Also, Ben and I went through the Foreward and the Introduction of the Technical Book Editing Project. It is now done being edited and we need to create the style sheet for it. Our next steps are to create the style sheet and the author query sheet. We are corresponding through email.

Technical Editing Project: Submission Notes - Wooten

Submitted by mbwoote on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 11:54
  1. Usernames of Editors (including yours):

    2. mbwoote, Parag R

  2. Author and Title of KB Journal article edited:

    3. Grace Veach, Divination and Mysticism as Rhetoric in the Choral Space

  3. Chapter or Section Edited in Richardson Manuscript:

    4. Chapter 4: Nothing but the effects of those instances of saying

Resume Project

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Submitted by Parag R on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:47

1. What was the most challenging aspect of your work on this project?
The most challenging aspect overall on this project was being concise. I have a lot of information on my resume, and it was very difficult to format all three versions of my resume so that they didn't look overloaded, but at the same time consisted of pertinent information for the purpose of the resume itself.

Technical Editing Project- Submission Notes

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Submitted by Parag R on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:13

1. Usernames of Editors (including yours): Parag R & mbwoote

2. Author and Title of KB Journal article edited: Divination and Mysticism as Rhetoric in the Choral Space by Grace Veach

3. Chapter or Section Edited in Richardson Manuscript: Chapter 4-Nothing but the effects of those instances of saying

Week 7- Technical Editing

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Submitted by MelanieP on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 19:25

On Sunday at the start of week 7, Andrew and I met at the library to finish editing our assigned book chapter. We also created a style sheet and a query for the author.

Andrew and I made a few final touches on Monday evening and communicated via text with any questions we had for each other. Once we felt the chapter was as error free as possible, we submitted each of the three documents into the dropbox folder.

Technical editing project submission

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Submitted by patrickkclarke on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:41

1)Patrick Clarke & Devin Wrigley
2)Kenneth Burke to Facebook by: Tonja Mackey
3)Edited Chapter 5 in Richardson Manuscript
4)The first challenge that I encountered as i edited the KB Journal article was in class we would be editing the document at the same time so we would have two separate documents that we had to figure out how to merge together.

Technical Editing Project Submission - Step 3

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Submitted by dwrigle on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:40

Usernames of Editors (including yours):
Devin Wrigley & Patrick Clarke
Author and Title of KB Journal article edited:
Introducing Kenneth Burke to Facebook, Tonja Mackey
Chapter or Section Edited in Richardson Manuscript:
What Stops Not Being Written
Describe some of the challenges or questions that came up as you edited the KB Journal article:

Technical Editing Submission Notes

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Submitted by andrewch on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:38
  1. Usernames of Editors (including yours):

    2. andrewch (me) and MelanieP

  2. Author and Title of KB Journal article edited:

    3. Media Coverage of Natural Disasters: Pentadic Cartography and the Case of the 1993 Great Flood of the Mississippi by Kevin R. McClure

  3. Chapter or Section Edited in Richardson Manuscript:

    4. Chapter 1: An Image to Honor and Worship

Editing Project Submission - Patrick O'Friel

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Submitted by patchmcm on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:34

1. Usernames: patchmcm, clevelandJN

2. Author of KB Journal Article: Rebecca Walker
Title of KB Journal Article: Flash Flooding: A Burkean Analysis of the Scene-Agent and Scene-Agency Ratio in the Flash Mob

3. Sections in Richardson Manuscript: Notes and Works Cited

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