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Style Sheets
Spring is here! Thank you for your patience while I play with this new colour feature in WordPress. What Is a Style Sheet? The most basic tool for editing, and one of the most practical, is a style sheet. Most of the time the editor creates this and shares it with others. A style sheet…
Editors Are Moving to a New Office
The Course Editors are moving to OL440 (the 4th floor of the BCCOL Building) at Thompson Rivers University. Our move should be completed by December 15, 2016.
Assessment Editing
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…
Self-Care for Editors
Self-care is a concept taught in our CYMH courses, which can be beneficial for editors as well. Self-care refers to activities we choose to do to improve our mood, enhance our physical and mental health, and avoid burn-out. Regularly doing self-care reduces stress, and promotes mindfulness and work/life balance. So what, exactly, does self-care mean…
Welcome, Welcome Back, and Goodbye
Welcome to our newest team member, Cory, and welcome back to Carolyn. Goodbye for now to D-L, who will be sharing her expertise and passion with the Marketing team for a term period.
Changes to House Style: Anchor Text & Attributions
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…