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  • Syllabus is subject to change on a daily basis!
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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
1 T 10-Jan Introduction

Next class:

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

 
  R 12-Jan

LAST DAY TO DROP.

 

Intro to Notepad and XHTML

Good writing

Next class:

Terms to know for quiz
  T 17-Jan

Good writing, continued

Editorial

Proofreading

Brainstorming for resumes

 

Next class

Terms to know for quiz
  R 19-Jan

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

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
  T 24-Jan

Proofreading symbols

Editing for Clarity, Conciseness, and Wordiness

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:

 

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
  R 26-Jan

Peer review of Resume (Due Tuesday)

Keyboarding and Surface errors

Next class:

  T 31-Jan

Peer review of Resume (Due Tuesday)

Keyboarding and Surface errors

 

Next class:

 

Terms to know for quiz
  R 2-Feb

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
  T 7-Feb

Discussion of homework

Capitalization, Plurals, and Possessives

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

Interviewing

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
  R 9-Feb

Getting xhtml ready for first ch eck:

HTML Links and Images

Introduction to CSS

 

 Complete Links and images assigmnent for Thursday
  T 14-Feb

Commas

Assignment 2: Press Release

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
  R 16-Feb

 

Today's Homework

  • Other Punctuation
  • Agreement

 

 

Next class:

  • Get access and do an interview for your profile (due Thursday)
  • email Application 6-E
  • email Application 7-E
  • Bring draft of Press release for peer review

 
  T 21-Feb ADVISING DAY: NO CLASS
  R 23-Feb

Peer Review Press Release

 

 

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
  T 28-Feb

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

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
  R 1-Mar MIDTERM BREAK
  T 6-Mar

Writing Leads for Profiles

Work on drafts of profiles

Cascading Style Sheets
  • Bring draft of profile with two ledes for March 13
  • 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
  R 8-Mar

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

 

 
  • 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 these for Tuesday so we can start work on them. (Due after spring break or anytime before).
  T 13-Mar

Assignment 3: memo assigment

 

Cascading style sheets (internal):

  • Prepare a draft of assignment 3: memo for peer review on March 15.
  • Read DPES Chapter 10 (letter and memo formats)
  • Hand in finished profile by Wednesday, March 21.
  R 15-Mar

Guest instructor Diane Martinez

Good web site practices

 

Homework
  T 20-Mar

SPRING LITERARY FESTIVAL

Peer review: assignment 3 (memo)

Cascading Style Sheets

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

 

 

For next class

  • Hand in Assignment 3 (memo) by Friday
  • Complete bad news letter for peer review
  • Read DPES Chapter 10 (letter and memo formats);
  • use 10:4 (block style) for bad news letter
  • (due thursday for peer review Tuesday)
  R 22-Mar

SPRING LITERARY FESTIVAL

Assignment 4: Letters

 

Cascading Style Sheets

 

Bad news letters due for peer review on Tuesday, March 27.

  T 27-Mar

Peer review of bad news letter.

Persuasive letters and job letters

 

 Bring your graded resume (electronic version) to class on Thursday. Edit your resume for content, then begin to recreate it for XHTML. Make sure that your resume file includes a cascading style sheet (internal or external).
  R 29-Mar

Peer review of job letter.

Web Resumes

  
  T 3-Apr

SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS

 

 
  R 5-Apr SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS
  T 10-Apr

Job letter: Example. Use keywords from an actual job listing to strengthen your letter; use specific examples that illustrate how you used various skills.

More on web resumes

Continue work on XHTML Resume.

 
  R 12-Apr

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

Examples

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.
  T 17-Apr

Peer review of job letter

Revision and preparation for online portfolio

  
  R 19-Apr Revision  
  T 24-Apr
  R 26-Apr FINAL EXAM REVIEW
  T 1-May 12-2:30: 303 EXAM TIME
  W 2-May 12-2:30: 431 EXAM TIME
  F 4-May 12-2:30 304 EXAM TIME

 

 
 
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