As I said in class today, I will give extra credit for handwritten edits* on the midterm story you write Wednesday in class. Here is a link to a set of standard editing symbols used by the University of Colorado at Boulder. One point added to your grade for each necessary edit, for a maximum of three. For example: If your grade on the midterm is an 89 and you have three handwritten edits, I will raise your grade to a 92, or A minus.
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* In writing and editing circles, "edit" is often used as a noun. You'd think we'd talk better than that, wouldn't you?
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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