Advanced Editing: Principles and Practices
Rhetoric and Communications · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall Or Winter, Every Year
RHET-3131 prerequisites
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Description
This course addresses issues such as the negotiation of meaning in text production, changing practices of language use, and the historical and social construction of error (including attitudes about "good taste") through a study of editorial practices. Students apply rhetorical analyses of audience, purpose, genre, and context as they edit various documents to strengthen style and readability as well as to ensure accuracy and correctness. Designed to help students develop sound editorial judgement and practical abilities, the course outlines principles of editorial practice that consider the needs of the reader, improve emphasis, and remedy common stylistic flaws.
Requisite courses
RHET-2131 or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].
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