So I totally forgot to post last Wednesday, and then I was out of town from Thursday-Monday and by yesterday I figured that I might as well wait.
So here are two very similar weeks rolled into one. Really, I don't know what Matt & Val told me last week, and I don't seem to have any notes on it. But I had copyedited some articles, and still had the other half to do. And I was waiting on some articles to get copyedited before I sent them to the typesetter.
Anyway, in the last week I have done more copyediting. And since I was going away for for days and don't have a lap top, I decided to print a few of the articles out. This way I could do the edits with a pen and then enter them into the computer later. And I LOVED it. It's so much faster! Plus, I really get to edit it twice, because I'm looking at everything again when I enter the changes on the computer. But it is a giant waste of paper, so I'm not going to do it all the time. I also received the final two articles for the journal and the authors for the other two articles approved the edits. I also worked on a Professional Bulletin Board, which will list upcoming conferences that pertain to sport finance.
Today I went in and Val is giving me some book chapters to edit, but there's no specific deadline. Oh, and I also have this huge reference section that Matt gave me last week that's in really bad MLA format, so I have that to work on. I also talked to Matt about how the approve book proposals. It's not something I'll deal with in this internship, but they're really good about teaching me all the aspects of the process.
For this week, I sent an email to the typesetter with all but the last two articles. I also sent the last two copyedited articles to the authors for them to approve of. And then I have millions of articles to copyedit... Yikes. haha.
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I'm really glad to hear that you're learning about so many different aspects of the publishing process -- and I appreciate your supervisors' willingness to take time to discuss these topics with you!
The "paper vs. electronic" copyediting discussion leads me to this question: what are your experiences with -- and more importantly, your evaluations of -- the various tools available to help editors do their work electronically? What are the strengths and the limitations of each type of tool?
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