Note:

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Key:

• WTW is Writing that Works (Rental)
• AP is AP Stylebook
• MHPH is McGraw Hill Proofreading Handbook
• DPES is Developing Proofreading and Editing Skills
• Learning HTML is a short online course.

• AP Style Media Law Section (on order at bookstore)
• Learning HTML Watch lesson 2.1, your first web page and follow along

Terms to know for open-note quiz on media law (all quizzes are open-note, closed-book quizzes). Passing this quiz is required.

Intro to Notepad and HTML

Next class:

• WTW 101-116: Emphasis, Point of view, and Language; Physical Appearance
• more on redundancy
• action verbs
• Red flags and expletives

Terms to know for quiz

Good writing

• Practice action verbs
• Red flags exercise
• Practice exercise 14 F (conciseness)
• Use this readability index to establlish reading level
• Some academic abstracts
• My letter to the editor
• PS: Gender genie
  • Story by Hemingway
  • Novel by George Eliot (female)

MHPH 1-14

Terms to know for quiz

Resumes

• Brainstorm about resumes (use this template to get started).
• See a sample functional resume

Resume Assignment: Complete brainstorming for Tuesday. Bring a draft (Resume or CV) for next 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).

Proofreading Skills

Editorial

• Resources for Technical Editors
• What do Editors Do?
• Nice PowerPoint by someone else
• Nice handout by someone else

MHPH 15-44

• Finish brainstorming for resume and bring document to class

Terms to know for quiz (appendices can be found here and on blackboard)

Proofreading Skills

Variations in Style sheets: Look up the following in AP, Yahoo, 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
• Human Kinetics house style guidelines
• 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

Style guides, very briefly

Resumes: NUTS AND BOLTS (download Resume, unformatted)

• Format and language
  • use past tense and first person without the "I"
  • Use a header for multi-page resumes
  • Be consistent about headings, font-faces, font-styles and weights, and punctuation
• Purdue OWL resume pages
• Job Ad with key words (mostly nouns)
• Power verbs
• Possible sub-headings: What skills to employers want? Selling your writing skills (advice from a law school).
• 10 mistakes you're making on your resume

Beginning HTML (For Friday, complete part 2.2 in a text editor and bring file to class on a flash drive/email)

Beginning FTP (to work at home, download this FTP client)

• ftp.prowritewcu.com
• username "lastname_firstinitial" (for example, obama_b)
• password "eng-303"

To work at home:

download HTML toolkit for PC or Textwrangler for Mac or Sumblime Text for either

• Write draft of resume and bring to class in electronic form for peer review
• MHPH 5 and 6

Proofreading marks to know for Wednesday

Proofreading symbols

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

Peer review of Resume (Final Draft due Thursday)

• Peer review instructions. All resumes must be completed to be peer reviewed. Anyone found composing a first draft of a writing assignment during the peer review period will receive a 0 for that component and an automatic 25% off of the assignment grade.

Practice live and dead copy

Beginning HTML (ForTuesday, complete part 2.3 (lists) and 2.4 (parents/ children) and send it up to the server

Beginning FTP (to work at home, download this FTP client)

• Beginning FTP (to work at home, download this FTP client)

  • ftp.prowritewcu.com
  • username "lastname_firstinitial" (for example, obama_b)
  • password "eng-303
• logon instructions

To work at home:

download HTML toolkit for PC or Textwrangler for Mac or Sublime Text

Resume due by midnight tonight

• DPES Chapter 1 (See Blackboard)

Terms to know for quiz

Discussion of editing:

Keyboarding and Surface errors

• Exercise 1-A
• exercise 1-F

Beginning HTML (Watch 2.5 and 2.6 Headngs and blockquotes by next class)

Next class

• Hand in Application 1-B in class
• Hand in Applicaton 1-F on Blackboard
• DPES Chapter 2
• Beginning HTML (Watch 2.5 and 2.6 Headngs and blockquotes by next class)

Terms to know for quiz

Discussion of homework

• Exercise 1b

Spelling and Word Usage; Capitalization; Plurals and possessives

HTML practice blockquotes and headings

Beginning HTML: 2.7 anchors

Next class:

• Hand in Application 2-A in class
• Blackboard: Hand in Application 2-E (save as lastname_firstname_2e.doc)
• Read DPES Chapters 3

Possessives

Getting xhtml ready for first check (Friday):

• Dreamweaver (WYSIWYG editor)
• Code validator
• HTML Anchors continued

For next class:

• Hand in Application 3-B in class
• Blackboard: Hand in Application 3-F
• Read DPES Chapter 4 and 5

Terms to know for quiz

• Bring AP Style book to class Tuesday

Possessives and Commas

Assignment 2: Press Release

• Lit Festival Press Release material (you should write your release about the 2014 Literary Festival)
• 2014 Festival authors
• Examples (unformatted) from WCU
• Another example
• Use this template to format your press release
• Example of a Boilerplate

Next class:

• Hand in Application 4-A in class
• Blackboard: Hand in Application 5-F
• Read DPES Chapter 6
• Read DPES Chapter 7
• Bring Assignment 2 (Press release) for Peer Review MONDAY

Terms to know for quiz

Peer Review Press Release

• Review of punctuation
• Review Application 5-F
• Practice commas using Adobe Acrobat

Next class:

• Hand in Assignment 2: Press Release by Friday
• Bring your graded resume to class (or at least have it accessible) on Thursday

Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

• Cascading Style Sheets at w3 schools
• What our syllabus style sheet looks like
• CSS Zen Garden (view the same code with multiple style sheets)
• Hex color codes
• Lesson 4.1: Your first style sheet

Watch HTML videos 3.2 (project structures) and 3.3 (images)

What to study for quiz

Press release due.

Work on resume

HTML 3.3 (images) and 3.4 DIVS; apply to resume

Next class:

• Blackboard: Hand in Application 6-E
• Blackboard: Hand in Application 7-E
• Read WTW on Routine Messages (321-330) and designing memos (303-306

Terms to know for quiz

Assignment 3: memo assigment

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

• Read DPES Chapter 8
• Read DPES Chapter 9

Terms to know for quiz

Chapter 8 and 9.

Variations in number style:

• IEEE Style Guide
• Yahoo
  • Yahoo & AP compared
  • Yahoo Word list

• Blackboard: Hand in Application 8-E
• Blackboard: Hand in Application 9-E
• Prepare a draft of assignment 3: memo for peer review on Monday, October 8.

Cascading style sheets (internal):

• HTML 3.5 Ids and classes
• styling divisions
• styling leading and other textual transformations

Peer review: assignment 3

Styling divs:

• sample resume 1
• sample resume 2
• sample resume 3
• sample portfolio 4
• Some creative examples
  • opacity property (doesn't work in Explorer)

Turn in memo by Friday.

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.

Bring the clean copies and the graded copies to class Tuesday.

Introduction to editing in Acrobat

• Exercises 9b, 9c

Introduction to revision of editing assignments (Due Monday, April 14).

Who uses manual proofreading marks?

• Translator's thread
• Desktop publishing forum

Here's a great resource:

• APvsChicago.com

Cascading Style Sheets

• Styling links
• styling lists

Bad news letters

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

Revising for final portfolio

Formats

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