Course schedule

1

Jan 17, 19

Syllabus; TCH 3, Reference Books & Resources

Course introductions & orientation

2

Jan 24, 26

Van Buren & Buehler: “ Levels of Edit”; TCH Preface; TCH 1: What Copyeditors Do

PE: picking a level

3

Jan 31, Feb 2

TCH 2: Basic Procedures; CMS 2: Manuscript Preparation & Editing; CMS 3: Copymarking

PE: copyediting marks

4

Feb 7, 9

TCH 4: Punctuation; TCH 5: Spelling & Hyphenation

Review VP assignment; PE: punctuation & spelling in VP draft

5

Feb 14, 16

TCH 14: Grammar

PE: agreement in VP draft; VP draft preview 2/16

6

Feb 21, 23

TCH 15: Beyond Grammar; Lanham: Paramedic Method; Williams: Actions & Characters

PE: apply Lanham & Williams to VP draft; VP draft 2/23

7

Feb 28, Mar 2

CMS 4: Rights & Permissions; TCH 8: Quotations; TCH 11: References

Review Leland & SL assignments

8

Mar 7, 9

Selections from Western Voices

PE: Leland essay; Midterm evaluations 3/9; Final VP 3/9

SB

Mar 14, 16

None

None

9

Mar 21

Anderson 19: Service Learning; Rude 24: Management

SL client selection 3/24

10

Mar 28, 30

Rude 14: Comprehensive Editing; Dilger: Decomposition

PE: comprehensive editing
Leland essay 3/28

11

Apr 4, 6

TCH 10: Tables, Graphs, and Art; TCH 12: Front & Back Matter

PE: tables and art; SL proposal 4/06

12

Apr 11, 13

TCH 6: Capitalization; TCH 7: Numbers; TCH 9: Abbreviations, etc.

PE: all three chapters

13

Apr 18, 20

Review style content (week 6)

PE: style and SL project; SL draft 4/20

14

Apr 25, 27

Review TBD

SL workshop 4/25

15

May 2

None

Final evaluations 5/2; Final exam 5/4; SL final edit 5/4

EX

May 8

None

Final SL portfolio 5/10