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Dr. Robert Lynch                                          Class: Wed. 6 - 9 pm,  Rm 407M

Office: 412 Cullimore                                    Phone: (973) 596 3276
  Office Hrs: Tues.: 11:30 - 12:15, 2:30 - 3
                    Wed.:        5 - 6                         FAX: (973) 642 4689
                     Fri.:   11:30 - 12:15, 2:30 - 3

 E-mail: lynchr@admin.njit.edu
On-Line:   http://www-ec.njit.edu/~lynchr
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Texts:  Carolyn Rude, Technical Editing, 2nd Ed., Allyn & Bacon, 1998

             Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual, 6th Ed., 1996 (or later ed.)
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Schedule:

Jan. 20: Overview of course: principles of editing
Class exercises:   Common Errors in Spelling & Punctuation 
Common Errors in Agreement, Case, Gender

Jan. 27: Conventional editing practices: proofreading symbols
Read: Rude, TE, Chap. 3, pp. 34 - 47; Chap. 11, pp. 176 - 187
Class exercise in proofing/copyediting
Due:  Revision of Cover Letter and Resume
 
Feb.   3: Basic Copyediting 
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 5, pp. 65 - 79
 Due: Revision of “Clinical Guidelines for Electrosurgery”

Feb. 10: Copyediting for Consistency
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 6, pp. 82 - 96
 Due:  Revision of “Nitrogen Dioxide”

Feb. 17: Spelling, Capitalization, Abbreviations
 (Please bring dictionary to class)
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 7, pp. 98 - 110
 Review  “abbreviations and acronyms” in AP
 Due:  “Environmental Impact Statement”

Feb. 24: Grammar and Usage
 (Please bring grammar handbook to class)
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 8, pp. 112 - 129
 Due:  Exer. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in TE, pp. 131 - 132

Mar  3: Punctuation
 Read Rude, Chap. 9,  pp. 133 - 153
 Due:  Exer. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 in TE, pp. 154 - 157 

Mar 10: Mid-term in-class copyediting task
 (Please bring dictionary, grammar handbook,
                  AP Stylebook, proofreading symbol list)
 Due: any missing assignments from previous weeks

Mar 24: Quantitative and Technical Material
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 10, pp. 158 - 174
 Due: tba

Mar 31: Visual Design and Illustrations
 Read Rude, TE, Ch. 17, pp. 273 - 293; Ch. 18, pp. 295 -  316
 Due: tba
 
April  7: Comprehensive Editing
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 12, pp.  191 - 209
 Due:  Written and Oral Proposal for Term Editing Project

April 14: Style: Definition and Sentence Structures
 Read Rude, TE, Chap. 13, pp. 212 - 226
 Class exercise: Denotation and Connotation
 Class Discussion: Three Mile Island &
                                               the Babcock & Wilcox Memo
 Due: Exer.   1, 2 in TE, pp.  226 - 227   

April 21: Legal and Ethical Issues in Editing
 Read Rude, Chap. 21, pp. 356 - 368
 Due: Revision of Babcock & Wilcox Memo 

April 28: Due: Term Editing Projects
 Oral Reports on Projects

ADDITIONAL SOURCES:

Bush, Donald, and Charles Campbell.  How to Edit Technical Documents. 
        Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1995.

Coggin, William, and Lynette Porter.  Editing for the Technical Professions.
        New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Eisenberg, Anne.  Guide to Technical Editing.  New York: Oxford U.P., 1992