Week 1

More than Grammar (handout)

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice (handout)

Expensive Grammar Lesson (PDF)

Week 2

CMS Grammar

"Technical Editing 101" (PDF)

"Editing: An Arcane Strategy for New Millennium Technology?" (PDF)

The Great Typo Hunt (Ch. 1-5)

Week 3

"Technical Editing and Quality Assurance" (PDF)

CMS "Grammar" (con't)

The Great Typo Hunt (Ch. 6-10)

Week 4

CMS "Grammar" (con't)

"Degrees of Edit" (PDF)

Editing Terms

The Great Typo Hunt (Ch. 11-15)

Week 5

Style Sheet (handout)

"Guidelines for Technical Edits" (PDF)

The Role of Editor

The Great Typo Hunt (Ch. 12-19)

Week 6

Proposal Introduction

"Teaching Punctuation as Information Management" (PDF)

"No Pain, No Shame Editing" (PDF)

Week 7

TBA

 

Week 8

Review

Week 9

Midterm

Week 10

"Strategies for Onscreen Editing" (PDF)

"Overcoming Objections to Onscreen Editing" (PDF)

Using Track Changes

Track Changes Overview (PDF)

Week 11

Effective On-Screen Proofreading (PDF)

Track Changes Tutorial (YouTube)

Track Changes Exercise (DOC) (Passive)

Week 12

Web? Paper? (PDF)

Editorial Style Guide (Northeastern University)

Publishing on the Web is Different (dated, but interesting)

Writer's Style Guide (Carnegie Mellon)

Week 13

HTML Tutorial

Basic Web Resource Site

"Editing Mathematics" (PDF)

Week 14

"Repairing Bad Relationships" (PDF)

"Technical Editor as Diplomat" (PDF)