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Authoring and Editing Logistics

Open Publishing Projects Certificate: Session 8

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Reminders

• create an OER layout
• plan for a modular chapter structure
• think about pedagogical devices in your OER
• discuss the alignment of your OER goals with your content with a teaching/ instructional design expert

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Agenda

1. Authoring and Editing Logistics
1. Guiding Collaborators:
1. Author Guide
2. Sample Chapter
3. Style Sheet
4. Guiding Questions
2. Editing (purpose, types, considerations)
2. Activity: Chapter Editing
• Edit a chapter using style sheet and accessibility checklist

Publishing Process Overview

Project Scoping

Growing & Managing Teams

Creating and Editing Content

Feedback and Review

Storytelling and Communications

Preparing for Release

Adoptions and Post-release

Accessibility and Inclusive Design

Learning Outcomes

• Discuss and delegate ways to split content creation and editing work throughout the team (consider: activities, prompts, sections, non-textual elements, subject-matter edits, copy edits)
• Adapt an author guide and style sheet template to guide your team and collaborators through content creation and editing
• Leverage your team’s project management tools to track the progress of your OER as it is being written, produced, and edited
• Using your initial OER content structure, create a sample chapter to demonstrate project consistency and act as an exemplar for all collaborators
• Practice incorporating accessibility into your authoring and editing workflows.

Guiding Documentation for Collaborators

1. ✅ OER Structure Template
2. ✅ Chapter Template
3. Author Guide [including Style Sheet]
4. Sample Chapter
5. Content Tracking Sheet
6. Memorandum of Understanding /Author Agreement

Author Guide

• Project Overview
• Audience
• Attributions/Credit
• Author Code
• Content Guidelines
• Style Sheet
• Sample Chapter
• Editing Guidelines
• Focus Questions
• Logistics
• Technology
• Submission guidelines
• Deadlines
• Next steps

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Sample Chapter

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Conveys desired :

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• Structure of text and non-textual elements
• Style and tone
• Accessibility criteria
• Student centered materials

Editing (Purpose, Types)

Enhance readability, overall quality and relevance of content:

• Provides structure, appeal, nuance
• Connects pieces as a whole cohesive text
• Chance to bring in new perspectives with text

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1. Substantive Editing

• Problem resolution
• Clarity
• Reorganisation
• Rewriting

2. Copy Editing & Proofreading

• Consistency in presentation,
• Corrections to sentence-level errors:
• grammar, vocabulary, punctuation

Example Editing Workflow

1. Authors send chapters to editors
2. Editor(s) review(s) chapter, leaving comments
3. Authors make changes and then submit for copy editing.
4. Copyeditors review parts.
5. Final round of proofreading, with special attention to formatting and accessibility.

Write

Rewrite

Edit

Copyedit

Proofread

Soliciting Constructive Feedback

• Have an explicit section in author guide/style sheet that foregrounds writing & editing as a dialogue
• Rely on the focus questions in your guide when delivering and/ or processing feedback
• Project manager = be decision-maker
• Screen the comments - identify any low priority suggestions, harsh phrasing, etc. & address these challenges to support the revision process
• Pull out the most relevant and top priority changes, using the SLOs as a guide

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Activity: Edit a Chapter with Style Sheet

This activity will ask you apply a style sheet to your editing work on a chapter

Instructions:

1. Work individually [camera off].
2. Make a copy of the Editing Activity Template for your own editing notes.
3. Read the instructions in Part 2 and style sheet in Part 2 of the template. [5 mins]
4. Edit the Example Chapter in Part 3 to your best ability. [10 min]
5. Share back with the cohort. [10 min]

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Next: OPC Phase 2

Prepare for OPC Phase 2

• Complete Scheduling Poll for Monthly Meetings

• Provide Feedback and inform Phase 2 planning in OPC survey

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Monthly Meetings: Expectations

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As a facilitator, I will:

• Invite your input prior to session to inform my planning,
• Make connections between OPC curriculum, your project goals and progress,
• Facilitate cohort sharing and feedback,
• Assist in finding solutions to challenges,
• Share relevant updates and news from the open education community.

As participants, you will:

• Actively engage in monthly conversations by:
• asking questions, sharing ideas and resources
• providing feedback to cohort teams
• Identify next steps between meetings to move your project along,
• Use Discussion Board and Canvas Inbox for cohort communication,
• Set monthly goals and frequently share project progress updates on the Discussion Board

Cohort Communication: Discussion Board

• Initiate conversations with people in your cohort or across!
• Share your questions, comments, ideas and resources in targeted posts.
• Respond to cohort questions in due time (no need to wait for the facilitator).
• Tag the people who you think can help, so they get notified.

Importantly, you will use the Discussion Board to:

• Help plan cohort and 1:1 sessions by sharing your monthly goals and project updates.