ENGL436

042441

The course will introduce students to the professional practice of technical editing. After learning about the history of the profession, the impact of the digital age, and current employment expectations, students will work in two modules on editing projects and produce an organizational style guide. Beginning with higher level editing concerns, students will evaluate, design, and produce documentation to address varied audiences and situations and attend to legal, ethical and accessibility issues. Students will work together to practice effective commenting strategies that engage authors and other editors in both one-to-one and networked collaborations. They will then proceed to copyediting and proofreading texts using editing tools in industry-standard software and specific sets of usage conventions. In the final module, students will become familiar with editing digital content that will be reused in different iterations across multiple platforms. Using an open source management system, they will create a site in which they will tag content for easy retrieval and potential reuse.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

ENGL536