MS Word shortcuts can help to do repetitive stuff faster:
| Toggle on/off track changes | Ctrl + Shift + E |
| Insert a comment | Alt + R, C |
| Return to your last edit point | Shift + F5 |
| Save | Ctrl + S |
| Find | Ctrl + F |
| Undo / Redo | Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y |
| Select all | Ctrl + A |
| Cut | Ctrl + X |
| Copy | Ctrl + C |
| Paste | Ctrl + V |
| Bold | Ctrl + B |
| Underline | Ctrl + U |
| Italics | Ctrl + I |
When editing is complete on a course or project, please share the editing style sheet in O drive (Curriculum Services Editing, 2 Course Style Sheets).
New process! Don’t include OL_Production on editing workflow emails. This refers to introductory emails (“I’ve begun editing…”) and the final emails (“files are in pre-production folder…”). Keep writing notes for Production on the files, and summarize any concerns in your final email to Curriculum Services. CS will send the notes to Production after sign-off.
I recommend this excellent “Assessment Editing” blog post at the ACES website. Evelyn Mellone and David Pisano are language proficiency test editors at the U.S. Defense Language Institute. They presented a workshop on editing assessments to ACES members, and their PowerPoint notes offer best practices and areas of concern that will be useful for anyone editing…
TRUFA hosted a book launch for Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization on the Kamloops campus yesterday. If you missed it, like I did, the book is available online (epub, pdf): Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization (links to Federation of Post-Secondary Educators). Looks like a great book with writers…
I made some minor updates to the Course Guide and Editing Checklist to reflect changes in our processes and wording from November and December 2016. I hope to update the best practice wording soon to document our new processes, reporting responsibilities, and checklist.
To paraphrase Gail’s retirement speech: “Work will come and work will go; what matters in the end is to love each other and treat each other right.“