What was done in the past week:
-Meet with Jocelyn on Friday to begin working with InDesign for a couple hours, as well as watched some of the tutorials in how to use the program. -We looked at other journals and wrote down ideas for how we'd like to format the upcoming issue. -Kept up with blog posts. -Read/reviewed the "Chicago Manual of Style" and "The Copyeditor's Handbook". -Placed markers for things I don't quite understand so I can ask questions during the class. Also, I placed markers for important pages (list of editing symbols, etc.) to easily flip back to them when needed. -Fixed some issues with previous blog posts. -Reviewed what a copyeditor is/ isn't responsible for when reading a contributor's work, and the symbols used during the process. -Practiced the copyediting a short story and did fairly well. I learned that keeping a dictionary nearby is very useful to always check the spelling, as well as the usage of any word, that I am not 100% positive is correct. It was a good learning experience, which helped me understand what my strengths are, and where I need to improve. -On Sunday I met again with Jocelyn to play around more with InDesign, and experiment with different types of layouts for the journal. -In addition, we began brainstorming ideas for our research project- what type of information or resources we're looking for, how to get this information, what is actually valuable to the future of Toyon and it's staff, etc. We will be meeting again to finalize who is doing what and begin accumulating our data on Friday.
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