LING 215: Introduction to Editing and Publishing (CRN 142)
MWF 8:00-8:50, SCHU 303

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  15 Jan—Intro to class 17 Jan—Types of editing
20 Jan—Developmental editing; read Norton’s Intro, Some Ground Rules, and chapter 1-2 22 Jan—Assignment of Norton chapters (4-5, 7-10) for presentations 24 Jan—Read Norton chapter 3 & 6
27 Jan—Presentation of Norton chapters 4 & 5 29 Jan—Presentation of Norton chapters 7 & 8 31 Jan—Presentation of Norton chapters 9 & 10
3 Feb—Developmental editing practice 5 Feb—Final discussion of developmental editing 7 Feb—Review for exam; Submit piece(s) to class magazine by 5 in Blackboard dropbox
10 Feb—Developmental editing exam 12 Feb—Stylistic editing; Read Zinsser chapter 1-2 and Hacker sections 8-12 14 Feb—Stylistic editing practice
17 Feb—Read Zinsser chapter 3-7 and Hacker sections 13-18; last day to request Zinsser chapter to explain (e-mail me) 19 Feb—Zinsser chapters assigned (11-19) for Blackboard explanation 21 Feb—Read Zinsser chapters 8-10; introduction to Career/Publishing Project
24 Feb—Read Zinsser chapters 20-21 26 Feb—Practice stylistic editing 28 Feb—Explanation of Zinsser chapter due on Blackboard by 5; request for specific files to review for magazine due by 5 (e-mail me)
2 Mar—Review for exam; Responses to Zinsser posts due by 5 4 Mar—Stylistic editing exam 6 Mar—Copy editing; read Saller chapters 1-3; Reviewing assignments for magazine distributed
9 Mar—Break 11 Mar—Break 13 Mar—Break
16 Mar—Read Hacker sections 46-47 18 Mar—Read Saller chapters 10-11 and Hacker sections 26-27 20 Mar—Read Saller chapters 12-14 and Hacker sections 32-39; Proposal for Publishing/Career Exploration Project due by 5 (Blackboard dropbox)
23 Mar—Practice copy editing; Reader Reports due by 5 on Blackboard dropbox 25 Mar—Practice copy editing; teams for magazine production formed 27 Mar—Copy editing exam
30 Mar—Rough draft of Publishing/Career Exploration Project due in class 1 Apr—Publishing unit begins; Read Tebbel and skim through the bits of Britannica that interest you (Blackboard’s “Publishing Unit Resources” folder); look through the “Some links for class on Wed, 1 Apr” folder. 3 Apr—Go to the Bookjobs website (linked from Blackboard) and peruse “Publishing Organizations, Major/Department Guide” and “Commonly Used Terms”
6 Apr—Censorship; read materials in the “Censorship readings” folder on Blackboard 8 Apr—Censorship 10 Apr—Censorship
13 Apr—Group work on magazine; Reports from teams due in class; Revised submissions to magazine due by 5 in Blackboard dropbox 15 Apr—no class; work on magazine assignments 17 Apr—no class; work on magazine assignments
20 Apr—read materials from “Future of Publishing” folder on Blackboard 22 Apr—group work on magazine 24 Apr—Final Draft Publishing/Career Exploration Project due by 5 to dropbox on Blackboard
27 Apr—MS for class magazine to be finished; final exam (publishing exam) review 29 Apr—Study Day Final Exam: Fri, 1 May, 8-10:30

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