English 3342. Editing

The purpose of this course is to teach you to edit a variety of workplace documents. To this end, you will edit essays, articles, web content, brochures, instructional materials, and a variety of other workplace documents. You will also learn to use the latest editing and collaborative writing software.

Course Objectives:  The objectives for this course include acquainting students with basic editing skills. Students will learn 1) levels of editing and editor-author relationships, 2) sentence-level editing, and 3) document editing. Students will also learn to use Microsoft Word’s tracking features and Google doc’s collaborative writing and editing features. (Note: You will need to create a Gmail account to use Google docs. Gmail and Google docs are free web-based applications.)