Activities for Today's Class

Homework for Next Class

• Syllabus is subject to change on a daily basis!
• Do not rely on a printed version.
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Key:

• AP is AP Stylebook
• MHPH is McGraw Hill Proofreading Handbook
• CC is a selection from an out-of-print textbook
• DPES is Developing Proofreading and Editing Skills
• Beginning XHTML is a short online course created by Dr. Paul Marshall at the U of North Texas

Next class:

• AP 352-377 (on order at bookstore)
• CC 1-15
• Beginning XHTML (Read "Introduction" and "Getting Started"

Terms to know for open-note quiz (all quizzes are open-note, closed-book quizzes)

LAST DAY TO DROP.

Intro to Notepad and XHTML

Good writing

• Practice exercise 14 F
• Use this readability index to establlish reading level
• Some academic abstracts
• My letter to the editor
• PS: Gender genie

Next class:

• CC chapter 3
• MHPH 1-14

Terms to know for quiz

Good writing, continued

• CC exercises on wordiness and modifiers
• That, which, and who

Editorial

• Resources for Technical Editors
• What do Editors Do?

Proofreading

• 2009 Literary Festival copy
• 2009 brochure final proof

Brainstorming for resumes

• Brainstorm about resumes (use this template to get started).
• See a sample functional resume
• Resume links:
  • How long should a resume be?
  • Resumes vs. CVs
  • Scannable Resumes (see downloadable version)
    • Keyword Searchng for Scannable Resumes
  • Example: Another Functional Resume (good for those with little job experience)
  • Resume Tips from Purdue's O.W.L. (contains lists of Power Verbs)
  • What skills to employers want? Selling your writing skills.

Next class

• MHPH 15-44
• CC chapter 4
• Finish brainstorming for resume and bring document to class
• Beginning XHTML (For Tuesday, complete "A Basic XHTML Page" in notepad and bring file to class on a flash drive)

Terms to know for quiz

Proofreading Skills

Variations in Style sheets: Look up the following in MLA, AP, and Chicago:

• The Wall Street Journal
• The book title "Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikubu's The Tale of Genji"
• the phrase "ad astra per aspera"
• the numbers "five dollars" and "two-thousand and forty-five dollars"
• the abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy
• the abbreviation for United Kingdom
• The phrase "Tom Dick or Harry"
• the phrase "exactly three automobiles and fifty-nine trucks"
• The name "Bela Bartok"

Other Style Guides

• Guardian Style Guide
• IEEE Style Guide
• Web Style Guide
• WCU Style Manual
• 303 Project and style sheet (summer 2009)
• Practice: making a manuscript style sheet (use appendix) from this copy: 2009 Literary Festival copy using this Style Sheet Template

Action Verbs

Beginning FTP (download this FTP client)

• ftp.prowritewcu.com
• username "lastnamefirstinital303" (for example, obamab303)
• password "lastnamefirstinitial_303" (for example, obamab_303)

Next class:

• MHPH 5
  
• DPES Chapter 14 (see Blackboard)
• Write draft of resume and bring to class in electronic form

Terms and proofreading marks to know for quiz

Proofreading symbols

• Prentice Hall's proofreading marks and author guide
• Merriam Webster's version of the symbols
• Practice proofreading

Editing for Clarity, Conciseness, and Wordiness

• exercises from ch14
  • wordiness
  • phrases
  • 14E

Resume Assignment: Bring a draft (Resume or CV) for Thursday. I am expecting these elements:

• Functional resume with keyword, skills, and experience sections
• Left justified except for bullets
• Header with page numbers for multiple-page rsumes
• Style:
  • Use the "first person" without the "I" (for example, "created an online handbook" or "well-versed in editing techniques"
  • Vary your Power verbs
• Format: be clean and consistent with headings, white space, and punctuation

Links for Discussion:

• See a sample functional resume (one page)
• Formatting muti-page resumes
• How long should a resume be?
• Resumes vs. CVs
• What to include in a CV
• Scannable Resumes and Social Media Resumes
• Keyword resumes (Keywords are nouns--not to be confused with Power verbs)
• Tech Writer Job ad: tailoring your key words
• Example: Functional Resume (good for those with little job experience)
• Resume Tips from Purdue's O.W.L. (contains lists of Power Verbs)
• What skills to employers want? Selling your writing skills (advice from a law school).

Next class:

• CC chapter 6
• DPES Chapter 1
• Exchange resumes and edit at home using standard proofreading symbols (red pen). Editor should put name at top of Resume using red pen.
• Beginning XHTML (For Tuesday, complete "A Basic XHTML Page" in notepad and bring file to class on a flash drive)

Terms to know for quiz

• Beginning XHTML: Quotations and Tables

Peer review of Resume (Due Tuesday)

• Peer review instructions

Keyboarding and Surface errors

• Exercise 1-A
• exercise 1-F

Next class:

• Beginning XHTML:Complete Quotations and Tables for next Tuesday
• Complete and hand in Resume for Tuesday

Peer review of Resume (Due Tuesday)

• Peer review instructions

Keyboarding and Surface errors

• Exercise 1-A
• exercise 1-F

Next class:

• Hand in Application 1-B
• email Applicaton 1-F
• CC chapter 7
• DPES Chapter 2
• By Tuesday, you should have a topic for your profile

Terms to know for quiz

NOTE: TEXTBOOKS GET RETURNED FROM BOOKSTORE

Spelling and Word Usage

Red flags

Next class:

• Hand in Application 2-A
• email Application 2-E (save as lastname_firstname_2e.doc)
• Read DPES Chapters 3 and 4

Terms to know for quiz

Discussion of homework

• Exercise 1b
• Discussion of Portfolios
• Writer's Residence.com (you get one year free with an edu email account)

Capitalization, Plurals, and Possessives

Profiles approx 300-500 words (due in March in stages; research begins soon)

• Explanation: Profiles
• Examples of Deborah Carr's professional profiles
• Examples of profiles
  • Erick Santero
  • Librarians go Wild

Interviewing

• How to conduct an interview
• 13 techniques
• Another guide

Next class:

• Hand in Application 3-C
• email Application 3-F
• Hand in Application 4-A
• Read DPES Chapter 5
• Decide on profile topic, and bring a set of interview questions to class

Terms to know for quiz

Getting xhtml ready for first ch eck:

• Dreamweaver (WYSIWYG editor)
• Legal tags in xhtml 1 (strict)
• Code validator
• My rubric

HTML Links and Images

Introduction to CSS

Commas

Assignment 2: Press Release

• Lit Festival Press Release material
• Examples (unformatted) from WCU
• Another example
• Use this template to format your press release
• Example of a Boilerplate

Next class:

• Profile Topic due
• Email Application 5-F
• Read DPES Chapter 6
• Read DPES Chapter 7
• Bring Assignment 2 (Press release) for Peer Review

Terms to know for quiz

Peer Review Press Release

Today's Homework

• Other Punctuation
• Agreement

Next class:

• Get access and do an interview for your profile (due Tuesday)
• email Application 6-E
• email Application 7-E
• Interview due (complete) next class

Writing Leads for Profiles

• Types of leads (written as practice by students for a published essay)
• 14 leads based on same press release
• Review of punctuation
• Review Application 5-F
• Practice commas using Adobe Acrobat

Next class:

• Hand in Assignment 2: Press Release (lastname_assign1.doc[x]) by Friday
• Read DPES Chapter 8
• Read DPES Chapter 9

Terms to know for quiz

All interviews due for check (must be completed on site with observation and description

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

• Cascading Style Sheets
• What our syllabus style sheet looks like
• Hex color codes
• The CSS reset file and beginning CSS
• Next lesson (font weight and colors)

• Next class:

  • email Application 8-E
  • email Application 9-E
  • Work on Profile assignment for peer review (October 25)
  • Read DPES Chapter 10

Begin process of correcting old editing homework:

• email Application 6-E
• email Application 7-E

Sentence Structure

• How to fix a comma splice
• How to fix a sentence fragment

Work on drafts of profiles

• Bring draft of profile with two ledes for March 20
• Bring all graded editing exercises that you did in Word (on disk). You will print out a clean copy of each and the graded copy of each and staple them together. Then you will re-edit each by hand. We will work on this for Thursday

Note: I am still missing several press releases! (They were due October 6).

Today: Re-eding of old homework by hand

Profiles with two leads (ledes) due for Peer review Tuesday.

• Manuscript form for profile
• Manuscript form with illustration (for stories and articles)

• Finish copyediting all electronic DPES assignments (including 8e and 9e) by printing out clean copies and copyediting them using the in-text and margin notations we have been using for class. These are due by Friday, October 28.
• Bring draft of profile with two ledes for October 25

Discussion of Press Releases with an example

• Use this template to format your press release
• Example of a Boilerplate
• Use the litfestival web site for the NC Arts Council boilerplate

Peer review of profile (each should have two alternate leads as specified during the last class)

• Manuscript form for profile
• Manuscript form with illustration (for stories and articles)

Assignment 3: memo assigment

• Editing Business Memos and Letters
• Revising style
• An example

• Prepare a draft of assignment 3: memo for peer review on (date).
• Read DPES Chapter 10 (letter and memo formats)
• Hand in finished profile by this Friday, March 16, but bring an electronic copy for Thursday, March 15 (mandatory!)

Association, Company (House), and Manuscript Style Guides

• Style Guide Template
• Wikipedia's Comprehensive list of style guides
• How to create a style guide
• Example
  • Alumni Profile 1
  • Alumni Profile 2
  • Alumni Profile style guide

In-class exercise: Annotating

For next class:

• Writers all profiles for information to put in class style sheet (style sheet due Tuesday so all profiles can be edited accordng to sheet)
• This weekend: Project editors

SPRING LITERARY FESTIVAL

Revisit anotation of profiles (above) with new Thursday deadline (Only 9 annotated profiles received so far)

Peer review: assignment 3 (memo)

Homework

• Hand in Assignment 3 (memo) by Friday
• Annotate your profile for group project if you haven't alraedy. That's do right away!

SPRING LITERARY FESTIVAL

Assignment 4: Letters

• Bad News overview (from Mid-south community college)
• Example Bad News Letter
• Bad news instructions (from Washburn)
  • Advice on Buffers
• Editing Business Memos and Letters
• Practice stating the negative as a positive
• Bad news letter: assignment

Cascading Style Sheets

• Font characteristics (4-6)

• Project editors deliver final edits of profiles to me by .... (date) (note new deadline).

For next class

• Complete bad news letter for peer review next Thursday
• Read DPES Chapter 10 (letter and memo formats);
• use 10:4 (block style) for bad news letter
• (due next Friday at 5 PM)

In-class revision of profiles according to the style guide (created by Mericle and Roberts)

• Style Guide (pdf)
• Style Guide (Word)
• Once edited, deliver to project editors (Harris and Connelly) by end of class

Peer Review Assignment bad news letter

Cascading Style Sheets

• Next lesson (divisions)
• Next lesson (float positioning)
• next lesson (clearing)
• Styling links
• Headers and footers
• styling lists

Web Resumes

• Some samples (Quintcareers)
• A previous 303 student's online resume

SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS

Cascading Style Sheets

• Styling links
• Headers and footers
• styling lists
• styling leading and other textual transformations

More on web resumes

• Web style (including headline style and "down" style)
• best online fonts
• legibility (leading, alignment, line length)

Continue work on XHTML Resume.

Revision for Portfolio

• Save your revisions as PDF files without spaces or caps (example: mccann_profile.pdf) and attach to your resume
• Use Adobe Acrobat or free pdf writer (if you don't have "save as pdf" capability)
• Make sure they are clean and don't have editing or "track changes"remnants

Formats

• Press release format
• Memo format
• Block letter format (with letterhead)
• Block letter format (without letterhead) (Note: attention line is optional)

Examples

• Memo example

Edit your resume for content, then begin to recreate it for XHTML. Make sure that your resume file includes an external style sheet.

Next class:

• homework 13-F
• Bring graded resume to class to practice consistency
• Bring all graded work essays to reedit for grammary and consistency. New grades.

Revision and preparation for online portfolio

• Examine resume for consistency
• Profile example
• Profile example 2
• free pdf writer (if you don't have "save as pdf" capability)