| Week
1 |
Jan 8
Monday
|
Introduction
Practicum
Information |
| |
Jan 10
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 1 in The Copyeditor's Handbook (3-15)
Complete Worksheet
1 before class |
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Jan 12
Friday |
Read Chapter 1 in The Copyeditor's Handbook (15-28)
Complete Worksheet
2 before class |
| Week
2 |
Jan 15
Monday |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day—No Class |
| |
Jan 17
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 2 in The Copyeditor's Handbook (29-39)
Complete Worksheet
3 before class
"Why Calling Slaves is 'Workers' is More than an Editing Error: Hand-Marked
Copy; Original Copy |
| |
Jan 19
Friday |
Read Chapter 2 in The Copyeditor's Handbook (39-56)
and The Economist Styleguide
Query Due: Complete Worksheet 4 before class
Articles: "The New
Feminism;" "Female
Bonding;" "An
Inconvenient Truth" |
| Week 3 |
Jan 24
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 4 (71-93)
in The Copyeditor's Handbook
Complete Worksheet 5 before class |
| Week 4 |
Jan 31
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 5 (121-129) in The Copyeditor's Handbook
Progress
Memo due by midnight |
| Week 5 |
Feb 7
Wednesday |
Class does
not meet this week
Read Chapter 4 (89-92; 106-110) and Chapter
5 (137-143) in The
Copyeditor's Handbook
Complete Worksheet 6 (Part
1 is due February 5th by midnight; Part 2 is due February 7th by
midnight)
Document: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
|
| Week 6 |
Feb 14
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 8 in The Copyeditor's Handbook
Complete Worksheet 7 before class |
| Week 7 |
Feb 21
Wednesday |
Read "Really Bad PPTs" and watch the Ted
Talk: "6 speaking tips for scientists and engineers."
Complete Worksheet
8a or Worksheet
8b before class
Document: "AER
Redesign" |
| Week 8 |
Feb 28
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 10
in The Copyeditor's Handbook
Complete Worksheet 9 before class
Documents: "2013, Control"
and "Abrams Image Style
Sheet" |
| Week 9 |
March 5
Monday |
Review "Really Bad PPTs" and watch the Ted
Talk: "6 speaking tips for scientists and engineers."
Group Presentations due; be prepared to present by
classtime
Document:
Group PowerPoint Presenation Rubric |
| Spring Break |
| Week 10 |
March 21
Wednesday |
Read
Chapter 15
in The Copyeditor's Handbook
(384-394) and "The
Insides of Words" by Donald Hall
Complete Worksheet
10 before class
Document "What Are You"
|
| Week
11 |
March 28
Wednesday |
Read Chapter
15
in The Copyeditor's Handbook
(394-396) and "Verbs" and "Adjectives and Adverbs and Other Modifiers" by
Donald Hall
Complete Worksheet
11 before class |
| Week 12 |
April 4
Wednesday |
Read "Sentences"
by Donald Hall and "The Grammatical Excursion" by Kim Addonizio and
Dorianne Laux
|
| Week 13 |
April 11
Wednesday |
TBA
|
| Week 14 |
April 18
Wednesday |
Class Presentations (attendance is required)
Presentation Rubric |
| Week 15 |
April 23
Wednesday |
Class Presentations (attendance is required)
Presentation
Rubric |
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April 25
Wednesday |
Class Presentations (attendance is required)
Presentation
Rubric |
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April 27
Friday |
Class Presentations (attendance is required)
Presentation
Rubric
|
| Week 16 |
May 3
Thursday |
Completion Memos
due by Midnight
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