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Editing Team Meeting Notes – January 15, 2020
Attendees: Chris, Cory, Courtney, Dani, Justin, Mona, and Naomi Time: 11:00 am Location: OL344 Notetaker: Courtney Notes News (Naomi) January 15, 2020 Budget Meeting recap More or less business as usual Budget requests have neither been approved nor denied Increased OL enrolment but decreased on-campus enrollment Speexx language training tools are no longer stable in…
Searching for a Singular, Nonbinary-Gendered Reflexive Pronoun
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A recent human service (HUMS) course has a lesson about using critical reflection to uncover and deconstruct assumptions. The lesson explores how language is changing to acknowledge nonbinary-gendered people through pronouns. For example, a writer might choose “they” as a singular pronoun instead of “he” or “she”. Using “they” as both singular and plural pronouns shouldn’t seem that…
Assessment Editing
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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…
Style Sheets
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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…
Language Theory: What You’re Really Editing Is the Person
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This week several editors attended an Editors Canada webinar: “Language Theory: What You’re Really Editing Is the Person” presented by Michael (Mike) Jones at the University of Calgary. He questioned if editors can be “advocates for the reader” (in the words of EAC President Anne Louise Mahoney), and together we examined the relationship between writer…