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.

For Next Time

  • Read the Parlor Press Author's Guide (Dropbox: 314 Documenation Project > 2Author_Guide2012.pdf)
  • Read Wrting: A Manual for the Digital Age 2e, Ch. 17 "Using Visuals to Inform and Persuade" and Ch. 18, "Desktop Publishing and Graphic Design for Writers"