Anthony Pym

 

Professional writing in English, 2009-10

Redacció professional en anglés
ALL WORK SHOULD BE UPLOADED IN MOODLE

Stylesheet for this course

Feb 4	Review of basic computer skills		.	Exercise: electronic styles
Feb 5	Overview of editing	Types of editing (PP) Introduction to copyediting (Black Tide text) (PP)	.	Worksheet on copyedting
Feb. 11		Degrees of editing Examples of stylistic editing More examples of stylistic editing (PP)	PowerPoint on stylistic editing (Burcet)	Worksheet on stylistic editing
Feb.18	Stylistic editing	Why it is needed	PowerPoint (Costello) PowerPoint (Burcet)	Worksheet on cutting sentences
		Readability scores	All the exercises on stylistic editing
		Principles
Feb 25		Clarity guidelines	Guideline 1 Cut sentences
		Powerpoint on clarity Powerpoint on Guidelines 1-3 (Burcet) Powerpoint on Guidelines 4-10 (Burcet)	Guideline 2. Passives	Worksheet on passives
			Guideline 3. Verbs	Worksheet on verbs
March 4			Guideline 4. Be positive	Worksheet on negatives
			Guideline 5. Modifiers	Worksheet on misplaced modifiers
			Guideline 6. Verbs up front	Worksheet on verbs
			Guideline 7. Parallel structure	Worksheet on parallel structure
			Guideline 8. Clear pronouns	Worksheet on pronouns
			Guideline 9. Stacked modifiers	Worksheet on modifiers
			Guideline 10. Clear prepositions	Worksheet on strings of prepositional phrases
March 11		Concision guidelines	Guideline 1: Short sentences	Worksheet on concision
			Guideline 2: Avoid redundancy
			Guideline 3: Strong beginnings
March 18	Copyediting	Overview Using stylesheets	Stylesheet for this course	Worksheet on stylesheets
March 25		Spelling Syntax Language checks Managing spellcheckers	Worksheet on spelling and syntax
April 8		Punctuation
April 15		Usage		Consolidation exercises
April 21	Using PowerPoint		On oral presentations and PowerPoint	Worksheet on PowerPoint
June 15	Exam 1	18.00-20.00	(Tuesday)

 

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