Documents for Editing Practice

Instructors: See the Instructor's Manual in the password protected section of the site (Course Preparation Materials) for sample midterm exams and marked copies of these documents.

Chapter		Title	Focus
9		Stem Cell Research	Copyediting for spelling and consistency
9	NEW	Aviation Security	Copyediting for spelling, consistency, and accuracy
11		Use of the Internet by Individuals	Copyediting for grammar, punctuation, illustrations, spelling, consistency; also includes a table for which the material in Chapter 12 is relevant.
			Instructions for electronic editing
			Instructions for hard copy editing
11	NEW	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine hardcopy editing version	Copyediting: Structural markup (hardcopy editing) Students will edit for grammar, punctuation, and consistency as well as tag text elements.
		electronic editing version	Copyediting: Structural markup (electronic editing) This document is the same as the one for hardcopy editing, but instead of tagging the paper text, students will create and apply "styles."
13		Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy	Proofreading
21		Client project	This assignment does not offer a document for editing but rather instructions for a client project.