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Halloween 2016

Bycward October 28, 2016

necronomicon

“Editing the Necronomicon” inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. Nice work Dani!

Some photos of our Halloween team-building activity:

Carving jack-o-lanterns for Halloween 2016

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Course Editing Team (March 2016)
Bycward August 25, 2016

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Changes to House Style: Anchor Text & Attributions
Bycward February 8, 2018September 12, 2019

This post captures changes to our editorial house style following a meeting on Feb. 9, 2018. Attributions and Credit Lines Attributions in a course might appear in a resources list (at the beginning of the module), in the learning activity that assigns the reading or media (within the module), in a title page (created…

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and/or
Bycward June 16, 2017

Instead of: Try: a and/or b a or b or both Source: http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/wordsuggestions/simplewords.cfm

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TRU-OL Social Sciences Style Guide
Bycward September 16, 2016

Thanks Mona for bringing this up: Some older courses include a link to TRU-OL Social Sciences Style Guide in the course guide. This guide was created to help students write academic papers. It tells how to write citations and gives instructions on the formatting and structure of papers. Unfortunately, the document is out-of-date for MLA and APA citations. For example, it refers to the fifth edition…

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Show Diversity
Bycward August 25, 2016

Where possible, we try to include examples of people from other cultures or depictions of the diversity of Canadian society in the course. Showing people from diverse backgrounds prepares students for life in a culturally diverse society and helps dispel preconceived ideas about others, which we hope increases the students’ competence for living in an…

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Working Remotely
Bycward March 18, 2020August 14, 2020

Process Change! Some editors may be working from home in the next few weeks. What? Why? The health authorities urge Canadians to practice social distancing, and we can do our work without being in close proximity to others in public spaces. Photo by Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash What Does This Mean? We are still working! We will be doing…

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