106-090 Editing

Note

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of First Year English including completion of First Year Creative Writing prerequisites. Word processing skills are essential.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Through guest lecturers from industry specialists (including reviewers, editors, graphic designers, publishers, marketing personnel as well as specialists in software, lay-out and graphics) students will gain an appreciation of the skills involved in editing, book design and production. There are three components to the subject: lectures from publishing industry specialists on topics ranging from the editing of creative and critical writing to the special problems of creative anthologies, book concepts, design and lay-out and the structural, grammatical and stylistic aspects of editing; workshop exercises and essays connected with the above; students' participation in the editorial and production collective. These will be concentrated in the production of an anthology of Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne; for example, editorial selection, text editing and proof-reading, conceptualising the book, book design, graphic design, lay-out and marketing.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words consisting of an Editing Notebook and exercises, and participation in the Anthology Project.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

• P Peters, The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide. Cambridge University Press.