A Little Practice with Electronic Editing/Drafting. Before you start trying to upload your rough drafts for some peer-review on the discussion board, I thought it would be good to do a small exercise in electronic editing and start thinking about the drafting process. Here’s what to do:
- Open Word or the word-processing software/app that you use.
►Word probably works best for this, but if you have a different word-processing program (like Open Office or Pages), then that’s what you should use. - Copy one of your own discussion postings from the past weeks into a document. Look to see if you have editing tools like Track Changes and Insert Comment. In Word 2010, they’re in the review tab. In Word 2003-07, they’re in the Tools menu.
►If you can’t find them, then use “Help” and type something like “comments” or “track changes” into the search box.) - Next, turn track changes on and begin editing your old discussion posting. Try inserting a comment or two about a way to improve what you wrote.
►If you can’t get track changes to work, then try using the old-fashioned method of commenting on someone else’s writing: [Write your comments in a different color to make them stand out, and put them in square [] or squiggly {} brackets to make them stand out even more in case the different color isn’t discernable as a different color.] - Then, save your file, naming it something distinct like “Julia’s editing test.” If you’re in something other than Word, save your file as a Word document or in RTF format (rich text format). This is so others in the class will be able to open your file.
- Return to this discussion board and write a little on your experience. (This is also a good time to ask questions about the process.) Relate it to the discussion in LB about revising and editing.
- Finally, attach your document to the discussion posting. You can do this by clicking on the button on the right-hand side, just below the box where you type your posting. From there, search your computer for your file, and post.
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15 points possible
- 6 points for practicing editing your old posting and posting it as an attachment on the discussion board
- 5 points for relating your process to the discussion in LB about revising and editing; this could also include questions that came up for you as you tried editing electronically
- and 4 points for responding to someone else (whether answering a question or otherwise helpfully responding).
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