Seongdong CREW Student Magazine The first edition of the Seongdong CREW Student Magazine was published in 2019. Students from middle and high schools in Seoul, South Korea collaborated throughout the year to select topics, write and edit articles, and design the magazine layout. The “Editing” phase of the project...
Journalistic editing
Editing and trimming the news article “It’s a minefield’: US restaurant workers leave industry during COVID-19” The article trimming assignment was one of my first experiences with journalistic editing. It required comprehensive edits to address structure and readability and copy edits to address parallelism and punctuation. The Purdue Writing...
Scholarly editing
Peer editing for journal submissions to Communications of the ACM (Toole) and Peitho (Gores) For this assignment, I selected an existing paper that could be submitted to an academic journal. I traded papers with a colleague (Gores), and we conducted peer edits. There were several elements of this that...
Working in editing teams
Editing the play Ali Baba And The Thieves, written by Debbie Lannen This artifact represents the collaborative side of editing. My team performed complete edits on two plays, one of which is shown here. This collaboration required the use of multiple technologies. At the beginning of the project, we...
Gathering, collecting, revising materials
Composing a campus-wide email announcement for the Orlando Heart Walk For this assignment, I collected and compiled information to disseminate in a campus-wide email. This task required several steps: researching details about the upcoming Orlando Heart Walk, evaluating what the audience needed to know, and composing a message that...
Working with writers
Considering two scenarios between writer and editor This exercise was instructional because it was a real-life approach to two professional scenarios. Editing is always a collaborative act (Rude & Eaton, 2011, pg. 7), and learning how to work with writers in a variety of settings is critical to being...
Website Writing
Amy is a contributing writer and editor for the cooking website “Amanda’s Menu.” The website features tips for cooking, information about different cuisines, and Amanda’s personal anecdotes. Amanda’s Menu...
Local News Article
Teaching at Global English House included community engagement activities, such as volunteering with community support organizations, visiting neighborhood schools, and writing articles for district periodicals. The “Local News Article” is an example of one such article. Article Draft GEH Hello~ My Co-workers! – J+A – 2017.11 Final Publication GEH...
Writing
Writing has been part of Amy’s life for a long time. She has been responsible for writing for a myriad of audiences and purposes in her work at the Y, teaching in Korea, and as a graduate student. Amy also contributes to various websites and publications. This section includes...
Student Magazine
One of the programs at Global English House was the student magazine. The first edition of the CREW Student Magazine was published in 2019. Students from several middle and high schools in Seoul, South Korea collaborated throughout the year to select topics, write and edit articles, and design the magazine...