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...
New Employee Orientation Document
When new American and Korean teachers were brought on board, Amy and her co-teacher were responsible for explaining the many programs available at Global English House. The “New Teacher Instructional Document” is a program summary provided to new teachers. GEH New Teacher Orientation – 2019.03...
Literature Review
Amy has experience with a range of writing styles, including memo reports, news articles, and research papers. The literature review was a culmination of months of research into the relationship between typography design and its impact on the reader experience. The full paper incorporated findings from more than 20...
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...
Recommendation Report
Amy was part of a team that developed a website recommendation report for the University of Central Florida’s Robinson Observatory (RO). The team conducted content analyses for four comparable websites and analyzed their findings to assess how the RO could update their website with a user-centered design (UCD) focus....